Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
AN AUSTRIAN ZWISCHENGOLD DATED ARMORIAL BEAKER
Lot 102

AN AUSTRIAN ZWISCHENGOLD DATED ARMORIAL BEAKER

1791, BY JOHANN JOSEPH MILDNER, GUTENBRUNN

Closed30 September 2014

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AN AUSTRIAN ZWISCHENGOLD DATED ARMORIAL BEAKER
1791, BY JOHANN JOSEPH MILDNER, GUTENBRUNN

The cylindrical body inlaid with an oval medallion in gilt and red with the coat-of-arms of Joseph Edlen von Fürnberg surmounted by helmets and flanked by elaborate mantling, the reverse inscribed 1791 within a wreath, cut with dotted bands and fluted base
4 ½ in. (11 cm.) high

Specialist note

Joseph Edlen von Fürnberg was patron of J.J. Mildner at Gutenbrunn until 1795. For a related service dated 1790 also with the von Fürnberg coat-of-arms, see Gustav E. Pazaureck and Eugen von Philippovich, Gläss der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, Braunschweig, 1976, pp. 322-323, pls. 305-306. For a similar armorial beaker see Michael Kovacek et. al., Glass of 5 Centuries, Exhibition Catalogue, Vienna, May 1990, pp. 98-99, no. 62 and also Rudolf von Strasser and Walter Spiegel, Dekoriertes Glas, Renaissance bis Biedermeier, Passau, 1989, p. 349, no. 250.