‘Hitler’s porcelain’ could bring in $2M

A treasure trove of loot plundered by the Nazis for Hitler’s personal collection is set to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s.

The 117 reclaimed pieces of 18th-century Meissen porcelain which form the Oppenheimer collection are racking up big advance bids online.

The crown jewel of the cache — a 1727 mantel clock case — already has a top bid of $140,000. Other items of note include a pair of baluster vases from around the same time, stamped with the mark of Polish King Augustus II, and a 1731 tea set (pictured) that once belonged to Venice’s noble Morosini family.

The Meissen porcelain items are “museum-quality pieces,” Dr. Lori Verderame, a museum curator and professional art appraiser, told The Post, saying she expected the collection to sell collectively for well over $2 million.

“Some of the works come out of great historic royal collections and they’re marked as such,” she said. “These are not run-of-themill pieces.”

The modern history of the collection has also contributed to its value. The porcelain was first collected by Dr. Franz Oppenheimer, a wealthy GermanJewish industrialist, and his wife, Margarethe, during the 1920s and ’30s. With the rise of Adolf Hitler, the family was forced to flee their grand home in Berlin for Vienna, Austria, in 1936.

The Oppenheimers were forced to part with their porcelain sometime before their escape from Austria. It was ultimately scooped up by a Nazi officer in Holland for Hitler’s own collection and was destined for his Führermuseum, a gargantuan vanity project in Linz, Austria, which was never realized.

After the war, the pieces were found by the famed Allied “Monuments Men.”