A transparent-enamelled beaker with view of the Hofburg, Vienna Anton Kothgasser, Vienna, circa 1815

signed, the waisted cylindrical form painted with a gilt tilted view 'Vue d'une partie du Palais I. R. du côté de rempart, à Vienne, within an amber-stained rectangular panel with gilt foliate decoration, the reverse with a border of green stylised flowerheads below the gilt-edged rim, over a cogwheel foot heightened in gilding

Dietmar Zoedler, 'Anton Kothgasser (1769-1851): Wiener Vedutengläser', Weltkunst, no.21, 1st November 1987, pp.3156-3157, fig.2.

there is a 3mm scratch to the enamel of the panel on the left hand side (above the roof) and a small area of rubbng to the lower part of the right hand side; there are three small retouched chips to the rim (0.1cm x 0.2cm, 0.1 x 0.3cm and 0.4cm x 0.3cm), otherwise in good condition
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For a beaker with the identical view, see Michael Kovacek, Glas aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 2006, pp.50-51, no.22. See also Gustav E. Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, 1923, pl.172.

For an illustration of this beaker see  P. von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser, pl. 208