Lot 536
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A KOTHGASSER-STYLE ROYAL PORTRAIT COGWHEEL BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
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A KOTHGASSER-STYLE ROYAL PORTRAIT COGWHEEL BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)

CIRCA 1900, PROBABLY VIENNA

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A KOTHGASSER-STYLE ROYAL PORTRAIT COGWHEEL BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
CIRCA 1900, PROBABLY VIENNA
Of flared form, painted with a portrait of Archduke Johann of Austria wearing military dress uniform within an oval medallion, elsewhere with stylised gilt foliage motifs and pink stiff-leaf borders, the rim and spreading notch-cut footrim enriched with gilding
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Archduke Johann (1782-1859) was a most unusual character. He took the province of Styria to his heart, and it's people took him to theirs. He embraced the local culture and people and ceaselessly promoted their interests. He was a modernizer, a mountaineer, freely-elected mayor, industrialist and promoter of railways, among other things.

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