A rare transparent-enamelled beaker with view of Schönbrunn, Vienna Anton Kothgasser, Vienna, circa 1820

signed, the waisted cylindrical form painted with a gilt titled view of Entree au Chateau de Schönbrun, within an amber-stained rectangular panel gilt with formal leaves, the reverse with a crenellated band below the gilt rim enclosing rosettes, above a cogwheel foot and part amber-stained star-cut base

Neumeister Auctions, Munich, 1980, sale 194, lot 440

Walter Spiegl, Biedermeier-Gläser, p.156
Dietmar Zoedler, 'Anton Kothgasser (1769-1851): Wiener Vedutengläser', Weltkunst, no.21, 1st November 1987, p.3157, fig.4

some typical minor rubbing to the gilding. There are areas of scratching to the interior of the glass on the reverse; there is also a deep lateral scratch running partly through the gilt inscription 'Schönbrun' and some minor wear to the enamels on the front.
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See Walter Spiegel, op.cit., pp.155-156 for further examples signed in this manner. For a beaker painted with a similar view of the palace, in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Gustav E.Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, 1923.

The view of Schönbrunn is after a coloured etching by Carl Schütz (1745-1800), dated 1783.

For an illustration of this beaker see  P. von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser,  pl. 204