CIRCA 1820, WORKSHOP OF ANTON KOTHGASSER

Details

A Vienna transparent-enamelled cogwheel beaker ('Ranftbecher')
Circa 1820, workshop of Anton Kothgasser
Of typical slightly waisted flared form with a 'cogwheel' cut base, enamelled with a frieze decoration of a cornfield, the yellow ears of corn on leafy green stems with various pink and blue flowers growing beneath them, brightly-coloured butterflies in flight above, the rim and base enriched in gilding
4¼ in. (11 cm.) high

Provenance

Emma-Henriette Schiff von Suvero (1863-1924) and thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

Cf. Rudolf von Strasser and Walter Spiegl, Dekorietes Glas, Renaissance bis Biedermeier, Katalog Raisonné der Sammlung Rudolf von Strasser (Munich, 1989), p. 355, no. 262, and Glass Gallery Michael Kovacek, Glass of Five Centuries, Exhibition Catalogue (Vienna, 1990), p. 137, no. 102 for two other very similar examples.

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