On September 14 Sotheby’s New York conducted a white glove auction of early Meissen porcelain from the collection formed by Dr Franz Oppenheimer, a Silesian lawyer and coal mining magnate, and his wife Margarethe in the early 20th century.
The 117 lots were restituted earlier this year to their heirs more than 80 years after the Oppenheimers were forced to part with them as they f led Nazi persecution.