A Lower Austrian Zwischengold dated armorial tumbler by Johann Joseph Mildner

1792, GUTENBRUNN

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A Lower Austrian Zwischengold dated armorial tumbler by Johann Joseph Mildner
1792, Gutenbrunn
Of slightly flared cylindrical form, set with an oval double-walled medallion gilt on a ruby-ground with a coat-of-arms within a rope-twist and band border, the silver-foil reverse inscribed Verfertiget zu Gutenbrunn, im Fürnberger grossen Weinpergwald/1792/Von. Mildner, the rim with dot and star decoration above a faceted band, the footrim cut with thumb flutes, the base with a sunburst (slight deterioration to foil panel)
4 3/8in. (11cm.) high

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Engl von and zu Wagrain in Styria, created Counts of the Holy Roman Empire in 1717.

Cf. Brigitte Klesse, Glassammlung Heilfried Krug, vol. I, no. 378 sold by Sotheby's, 15 November 1982, lot 494 and the example that was sold in these Rooms 7 June 1988, lot 307.

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