conical sides and stepped foot with gold edge, enamel-painted colour figural depictions of 'Alt Wiener Lebens' [life in old Vienna], underneath signature H. Schließmann and die 'motto', height 10.5 cm, cassette 34.5 x 34.5 cm, front with two spring locks, reverse side with hinges, one missing, E. Bakalowits & sons, Vienna around 1900, both casket hinges are damaged. (Ru)

Hans Schließmann, painter and draughtsman, b. Mainz, Feb 6, 1852, d. Vienna Feb 14, 1920, from 1866 education at the Xylographische Anstalt R. von Waldheim in Vienna. Later on contributor to the magazines 'Humoristische Blätter', 'Kikeriki' und 'Fliegende Blätter'. His illustrations show vernacular scenes from Vienna, he painted glasses using a range of techniques. Thanks to his education at R. von Waldheim he mastered the technique of calking. For some of his glasses, the contours of the depictions were first applied by calking and then painted with transparent enamel colours. His 'Schattenriss-Silhouettenmalereien' [silhouette paintings] were executed without calking in black enamel painting. Renowned persons from the world of the arts, politics or from daily life were models for his caricatures. His main productive period was in the years 1880–1910. Some glasses are marked with the company mark of the Viennese glass trader E. Bakalowits and sons on the stand.