AN AUSTRIAN ZWISCHENGOLD DATED PORTRAIT BEAKER

1792, BY JOHANN JOSEPH MILDNER, GUTENBRUNN

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AN AUSTRIAN ZWISCHENGOLD DATED PORTRAIT BEAKER
1792, BY JOHANN JOSEPH MILDNER, GUTENBRUNN
The cylindrical body decorated in red-inlays and enamels with an oval profile portrait medallion of a fashionably dressed gentleman, the reverse inscribed Freundschaft ist das schönste Band, das nur je ein Mensch erfand 'friendship is the nicest bond which ever happened to a man' above 1792 Mildner Gutenbrunn, the inner rim with an inscription relating to friendship, within red and gilt borders, the base with a gilt radiating star
4 ½ in. (11.1 cm.) high

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Johann Joseph Mildner (1763-1808) lived in Gutenbrunn in Austria and was one of the most inventive and creative decorators of glass of the period, specialising in portraiture and silver and gold inlay techniques. For a discussion of his work and a listing of known signed and dated pieces by him see Gustav E. Pazaurek and Eugen von Philippovich, Gläss der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, Braunschweig, 1976, pp 297-326 and a similar portrait beaker is illustrated on p. 304, pl. 291. For other similarly decorated beakers see Rudolf von Strasser and Walter Spiegl, Dekoriertes Glas, Renaissance bis Biedermeier, Passau, 1989, pp. 346-347, nos. 245 & 246.

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