Inkstand with the arms of Ernst Johann von Biron

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1735 - c. 1740

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur Meissen, c. 1735–1740 hard-paste porcelain

  • Artwork typeinkstand
  • Object numberBK-17455
  • Physical characteristicsporselein

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Inkstand with the arms of Ernst Johann von Biron

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17455

  • Description

    Inktstel van porselein, bestaande uit een blad, een tafelbel, een zandstrooier en een inktpot, veelkleurig beschilderd met landschappen, waaronder ruitergevechten en zeeslagen, en het wapen van Ernst Johann graaf van Biron (1690-1772) en het spiegelmonogram BGVT van zijn vrouw Benigne Gottlieba Trotha, genaamd Von Treyden.


Creation

  • Creation

    porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen

  • Dating

    c. 1735 - c. 1740

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    porselein


Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

  • Provenance

    …; collection Hermitage, Petersburg, 1911, 1914;{Note RMA; Starye Gody May 1911, p. 18, image 22; Berling 1914, pp. 156-7, fig. 7:.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939) Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 267, no. Po. 55.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.


Documentation

    • K. Berling, 'Meissner Porzellan in der Eemitage zu St. Petersburg', Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 17 (1914), p. 156-157, afb. 7.
    • S. Trojnitsky, 'Galereja farfora Imperatorskogo Ermitaza I', Starye Gody (1911) mei, p. 18, afb. 22.

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