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Fig 8. List of Chinese porcelains from the collection of Constantin von
Hanneken, Stadtarchiv Hildesheim, SAHi-Best.102 Nr.13831
© Stadtarchiv Hildesheim
圖八 漢納根珍藏中國藝術品之清単
China with his family in 1922 hoping to regain Ohlmer. For example, the rare white-glazed double
his influence and position in the Kaiping Mining gourd vase (lot 73 and the blue and white dragon
Company. In March 1925 he died in Tianjin, and Elsa and double-gourd vase (lot 70) are illustrated together in
their children returned to Germany in 1926. Most of the a photograph taken in the 1890s depicting the salon
collection remained in Germany through the first half of the Detring home in Tianjin. These two pieces were
of the 20th century. A number of pieces accompanied listed by Chinese customs among other porcelains
their son when he emigrated to the United States in and works of art from the Detring Collection when
the 1930s. The remaining part exhibited together his wife Eva Detring returned to Germany in 1928.
with the Ohlmer collection in the Roemer-Pelizaeus After her death, they were passed down to Gustav
Museum in Hildesheim from 1932 until the evacuation Detring’s daughter, Elsa Detring, Constantin von
of the Museum‘s collection in 1944. Since the pieces Hanneken’s wife. Other pieces, such as the ruby-
from the von Hanneken Collection were restituted to ground famille rose bowl (lot 72), were on loan to
the heirs in 1959, they have remained with Detring and the Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum as early as 1899 and
von Hanneken’s descendants to this day. may have been included in selection of porcelains
including a green and a blue ‘dragon’ meiping (lots 74
Several of the porcelains and works of art from the and 75) from the von Hanneken Collection exhibited
von Hanneken Collection offered in this sale and in alongside the Ohlmer Collection of Chinese porcelains
the St George sale illustrate the close ties between and works of art donated to the Roemer-P Museum in
Constantin von Hanneken, Gustav Detring and Ernst 1928 and exhibited in 1930. (fig.8)
