A transparent-enamelled beaker with a view of St. Michael's Place, Vienna Anton Kothgasser, Vienna, circa 1815

signed, the waisted cylindrical form painted with a gilt titled scene of Vue de la Place de S^{t Michel à Vienne.,} within an amber-stained rectangular panel gilt with formal leaves, the reverse with a border of green stylised flowerheads, the rim with a narrow cross-hatched gilt band below a broader band of gilding to the edge, the cogwheel foot heightened in gilding

Dietmar Zoedler, 'Anton Kothgasser (1769-1851): Wiener Vedutengläser', Weltkunst, no.21, 1st November 1987, p.3156, fig.1 and p.3158
Walter Spiegl, Biedermeier-Gläser, p.162, pl.184

There is rubbing to the gilding on the rim, especially on the top edge and to the area above the inscription 'à Vienne'; there is a 3mm sliced chip to the rim at the rear on the edge which has been retouched. The gilding on the flutes is also rubbed in places; otherwise generally in good condition
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Compare with the example depicting the same scene illustrated by Gustav E.Pazaurek, op.cit., 1923, pl.171 who lists signed examples in collections of which the present lot may be one; see also Rudolf von Strasser, Einschreibebüchlein, p.48.

The image is after a popular coloured engraving by Carl Schütz (1745-1800), dated 1783, with St.Michael's church on the left of the Spanish riding school and the old Burgtheater.

For an illustration of this beaker see  P. von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser, pl. 214