Lot 96: 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 'Mohn f' in gilding below the panel; 27 in red enamel on the base some typical rubbing to the gilding and repaired chip to rim at the front

10.9cm., 4¼in.

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

Hanke, Düsseldorf, 1976

RANFTBECHER, WIEN, UM 1815, GOTTLOB SAMUEL MOHN, SIGNIERT
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.