A transparent-enamelled beaker with view of Greiffenstein Castle Gottlob Samuel Mohn, Vienna, circa 1815

signed, the waisted cylindrical form painted with a gilt titled view of Das Bergschlofs Greiffenstein an der Donau, within an amber-stained rectangular panel gilt with formal leaves, a band of gilt leaves and scroll on an amber band below a gilt-edged rim, above a part amber-stained cogwheel foot and star-cut base

Hanke, Düsseldorf, 1976

Dietmar Zoedler, 'Samuel und Gottlob Mohn: Vater und Sohn auf dem Weg in das Biedermeier', Weltkunst, No.16, 1st November 1987, p.2118, fig.6

some typical rubbing to the gilding, especially on the rim and on the palisade flutes; there is a 1cm. by 5mm narrow oval restored chip to the rim above the inscription 'Donau'.
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For a similar scene of a ruin - Schloß Liechtenstein - by Gottlob Mohn see Gustav Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, 1923, ill. opposite p.170.