Beaker with a View of Vienna
Artist: Gottlob Samuel Mohn (German, 1789-1825)
Date: 1814
Dimensions:
H: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)
Medium: Transparent colorless glass, blown, painted with transparent enamel, gilded, cut, and polished.
Place of Origin: Austria
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2004.8
Label Text:Gottlob Samuel Mohn was a porcelain and glass decorator who trained in the workshop of his father Samuel Mohn in Dresden and studied drawing at the Dresden Academy of Arts. The Mohns developed suitable colors for transparent enameling on glass, an art that had been lost for a century (see the painted beakers by Johan Shaper in Gallery 2 and the Goblet with Four Continents in Gallery 3). Beakers with detailed views (vedute) of Vienna were purchased mostly as souvenirs and romantic gifts. A tiny air bubble near the rim is covered by a painted black fly, a trick used earlier by porcelain decorators to disguise flaws.
DescriptionColorless glass beaker of cylindrical form, the body, decorated with silver-yellow stained edging, painted brown foliage border, chevron border, and a black fly, the reserve containing the polychrome, transparent painted view "Ansicht von Wien bei dem Stubenthore" with the designation below, at the bottom right signed: G Mohn f. 1814.
Colorless glass beaker of cylindrical form, the body decorated with silver-yellow stained edging, painted brown foliage border, chevron border, and a black fly, the reserve containing the polychrome, transparent painted view "Ansicht von Wien bei dem Stubenthore" with the designation below, at the bottom right signed: G. Mohn f. 1814.
Colorless glass beaker of cylindrical form, the body decorated with silver-yellow stained edging, painted brown foliage border, chevron border, and a black fly, the reserve containing the polychrome, transparent painted view "Ansicht von Wien bei dem Stubenthore" with the designation below, at the bottom right signed: G. Mohn f. 1814.
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