A fine transparent-enamelled and gilt beaker with a view of Milan Cathedral possibly Jakob Schuhfried, Vienna, circa 1825-30

the waisted cylindrical form of amber tint, painted with a view of a cathedral within a narrow amber-stained rectangular panel gilt with formal leaves, inscribed below FACCIATA DEL DUOMO DI MILANO on a white ground, above a cogwheel foot and star-cut base, the remainder and interior overall gilt

with Klaus Hübner, Würzburg

Dietmar Zoedler, 'Anton Kothgasser (1769-1851): Ranftbecher mit italienischen Veduten', Weltkunst, No.2, 15th January 1988, pp.114-115, fig.1
Rudolf von Strasser, Licht und Farbe, p.489, mentioned

Some very minor wear to the gilding on the rim and to the edges of the palisade flutes, otherwise generally in very good condition overall
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See also Rudolf von Strasser, Die Einschreibebüchlein, p.76, pl.50 and Licht und Farbe, pp.489-490, no.337 for an identical example in the von Strasser Collection attributed to Jakob Schuhfried. Von Strasser also lists the number of glasses with Italian subjects and makes reference to similar views found on Vienna porcelain from 1792.

For an illustration of this beaker see  P. von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser, pl. 255