Crucifixion Group in Fitted Leather Case
.2 (Virgin Mary): 6 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (16.51 × 5.72 × 4.45 cm)
.3 (St. John): 6 3/8 × 3 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (16.19 × 7.94 × 3.81 cm)
.4 (Mary Magdalene): 6 1/2 × 5 1/4 × 7 5/8 inches (16.51 × 13.34 × 19.37 cm)
.5 (Fitted Leather Case): 20 1/16 × 8 × 6 3/4 inches (50.96 × 20.32 × 17.15 cm)
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"Impulse. Europäische Porzellanmanufakturen als Wegbereiter internationaler Lebenskultur." Museum der Porzellanindustrie, Hohenberg/Eger, Germany, November 1995
"Celebrating Kaendler. Meissen Porcelain Sculpture/Zum 300. Gebrutstag Johann Joachim Kaendlers, 1705-1775. Porzellanskulpturen aus Meissen." Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz Kunsthandel, European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, Netherlands, March 10-19, 2006.
“The Birth of European Porcelain, Celebrating 300 years of Meissen Ware,” Ōkura Shūkokan, Hosomi Bijutsukan, Machida Shiritsu, Hakubutsukan and Aichi-ken Tōji Shiryōkan, Oct. 2, 2010-Dec. 11, 2011, no. 111
Purchased at the sale, Fine Continental Porcelain from Various Sources, Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., London, October 6, 1980, lot 121, as A Meissen Travelling Altar Group of the Crucifixion, by Prof. Dr. Johannes Rafael (1937-2021), Heidelberg, Germany, 1980-at the latest 2006 [1];
Purchased from Rafael by the dealer Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, Germany, by at least 2006 [2];
Private collection, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-July 6, 2023 [3];
Purchased at the private collector’s sale, 500 Years of European Ceramics, Bonhams, London, July 6, 2023, lot 67, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.
NOTES:
[1] According to Sebastian Kuhn, Bonhams, in email correspondence with Deputy Director William Keyse Rudolph, June 22, 2023, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
[2] According to Kuhn [see note 1], von Wallwitz purchased the crucifixion group from the German private collector who had purchased it from Christie’s in 1980. It was included in the exhibition Celebrating Kaendler: Meissen Porcelain Sculpture at Kunsthandel Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich, in 2006.
[3] This private collector has requested to remain anonymous in public records. The collector’s name is documented in the Nelson-Atkins files.
Fine Continental Porcelain. Monday 6 October 1980 (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., 1980): lot 121, p. 36 (ill.)
Len and Yvonne Adams. Meissen Portrait Figures (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1987): 59 (ill.)
Wilhelm Siemen. Impulse. Europäische Porzellanmanufakturen als Wegbereiter internationaler Lebenskultur, exh. cat. (Hohenerg a.d. Eger, Germany: Museum der Porzellanindustrie, 1995): I-35, fig. 16 (ill).
Alfred Ziffer. "Kruzifix mit Magdalena, Maria und Johannes/Crucifix with the Holy Virgin, Mary Magdalene and St. John," in Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, ed. Celebrating Kaendler, Meissen Porcelain Sculpture, exh. cat. (Munich: Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz Kunsthandel, 2006): cat. no. 23, pp. 130-135 (ill.)
マイセン西洋磁器の誕生 : 開窯 300年= Glittering Meissen: The Birth of European Porcelain: Celebrating 300 Years of Meissen Ware, exh. cat. (Aichi-ken Tōji Shiryōkan; Ōkura Shūkokan; Hosomi Bijutsukan; Machida Shiritsu Hakubutsukan, 2010): cat. no. 111, pp. 98, 148 (ill.).
500 Years of European Ceramics. Thursday 6 July 2023 (London: Bonham’s New Bond Street, 2023): lot 67, pp. 44-45 (ill.).
