A rare transparent-enamelled beaker with a view of the Emperor's Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil probably Jacob Schuhfried, Vienna, circa 1820

the waisted cylindrical form painted with a gilt titled view Dedié à sa Majesté Imp. et Roy Lepoldine Princesse d'Autriche et à sa Majesté Roy, le Prince heretier de Brésil et de Portugal, within an amber-stained rectangular panel gilt with foliate decoration, the reverse with border of stylised gilt flowerheads below the gilt-edged rim, the cogwheel foot heightened in gilding and with part amber-stained star-cut base 

Sold Dorotheum, Vienna, date unknown

Dietmar Zoedler, 'Kothgasser und der Kaiser von Brasilien', Weltkunst, 15th October 1993, p.2769, fig.
Rudolf von Strasser, Einschreibebüchlein, p.73, fig.47

small flat chip to the underside of the base (0.4cm x 0.5cm) and some typical rubbing to gilding of rim, otherwise in good condition
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Rudolf von Strasser, op.cit., p.73, makes reference to his knowledge of this glass which probably celebrates the marriage in 1817 of  the Austrian Archduchess Carolina Josef-Leopoldina (1797-1826) with Emperor Don Pedro I of Brazil (1794-1834).

For an illustration of this beaker see  P. von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser, pl. 259-260