Lot 98
  • 98

The Feistritz Goblet A transparent-enamelled Goblet from the Wildenstein series Gottlob Samuel Mohn, Vienna, circa 1815

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • 'G.Mohn.f. MLDVM' below the panel to the right ; applied paper labels
  • 19.3cm., 7 5/8 in.
signed, the deep bell-shaped bowl gilt and painted in transparent enamels with a view of a castle in a mountainous landscape, within an amber-stained rectangular panel, inscribed on the reverse in coloured gothic lettering FEISTRITZ, the rim decorated with a gothic border, set on a collar over a spreading conical foot decorated in gilding on a matt dark-green ground

Provenance

The Mauthner family, Schloß Feistritz
Josef and Fritzi Mahler Collection, Vienna and New York, sold Dorotheum, Vienna, 1935

Exhibited

Corning Museum of Glass, New York, no.33

Condition

some typical rubbing to gilding of rim, otherwise in good condition
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Catalogue Note

Schloß Feistritz can be found in Lower Austria.