A VIENNA TRANSPARENT-ENAMELLED BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
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A VIENNA TRANSPARENT-ENAMELLED BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)

CIRCA 1815-20

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A VIENNA TRANSPARENT-ENAMELLED BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
CIRCA 1815-20
Painted in the workshop of Anton Kothgasser with the birth of Beauty from a rose bud, represented as a putto emerging from a rose reserved against a black ground within a gilt and amber-tinted cartouche formed from an ouroboros, above gilt and amber-tinted lappet-shaped ornament alternating with sprigs, on a cog wheel-cut and star-cut amber-stained base (minute chip to cog wheel base)
4 1/8 in. (10.2 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

See Gustav E. Pazaurek and Eugene von Philippovich, Gläser der Empire-und Biedermiererzeit (Braunschweig, 1976), pp. 203-204, pl. 192 for an almost identical glass and pl. 193 for the French print source of 1804.

A detail of the foot of this beaker is illustrated on the back cover of this catalogue.

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