Beaker with a View of Vienna

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Beaker with a View of Vienna

Artist Gottlob Samuel Mohn (German, 1789-1825)

Place of OriginAustria

Date1814

DimensionsH: 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)

MediumTransparent colorless glass, blown, painted with transparent enamel, gilded, cut, and polished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2004.8

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4

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.

Label TextGottlob 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.Published ReferencesAuction Glas und Porzellan, Dorotheum, Vienna, March 23, 2004, lot 18.

von Lichtenberg, Paul, Mohn & Kothgasser: Transparent bemaltes Biedermeierglas Transparent-Enamelled Biedermeier Glass, Hirmer, Munich, 2009, pp. 52-55, repr. (col.) Pl. I.21, p. 53.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, New Acquisitions in Glass, Oct. 8 - Dec. 26, 2004.