CIRCA 1820, A.K MONOGRAM IN BLACK ENAMEL

Details

A VIENNA TRANSPARENT-ENAMELLED BEAKER (RANFTBECHER)
CIRCA 1820, A.K MONOGRAM IN BLACK ENAMEL
Decorated by Anton Kothgasser with an amber-stained and gilt sunburst cartouche inscribed bon jour below trailing laurel leaves between gilt lines, the reverse gilt with the inscription Ni du tems la longueur, ni du lieu la distance, n'auront jamais la puifsance, du Vous arrachaer de mon coeur., on a cog-wheel cut and gilt base (slight rubbing to gilding)
4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Sammlung Josef Mahler, sale Vienna Kunstauktion, 27th September 1994, lot 263
Mahler collection label attached to the underside.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

See the example from the Bertha Schafranek and Rudolf Just Collection, sale Sotheby's Olympia, 11th December 2001, lot 203, which was recorded by Gustav E. Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire-und Bierdermeiezeit (Leipzig, 1923), p. 214.

A detail of this beaker is illustrated on page 129.

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