A North Bohemian transparent-enamelled beaker with view of Carlsbad after 1830

the waisted cylindrical form painted with a river and town, inscribed in gilding below Ansicht von Carlsbad in Böhmen, within an amber-stained rectangular panel with gilt foliate decoration, engraved on the reverse with Aus Dankbarkeit FM, below an amber-stained rim with gilt foliate sprigs under the gilt-edged rim, over a cogwheel foot with part amber-stained star-cut base

with Galerie Rudigier, Munich, 1984

Dietmar Zoedler, 'Zur Geschichte de böhmischen Glasdekoration: Karlsbader Vedutengläser', Weltkunst, no.15, 1st August 1990, p.2261, fig.5

some typical rubbing to the gilding of the rim and the leaf-border; polished rim chip to the reverse, the fluting of the foot with some typical wear
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