glass, colourless, curved body with fine and wide gilt edging, gilt painted ivy wreaths over silver-yellow staff, octagonal reserve with colour painted depiction of park landscape and vase and Amor arranging the flower bouquet, underneath that the inscription “Blühe immer”, frame of gilt leaf border on silver-yellow stained edge, cog-wheeled Ranft with gilt edging, base with 16-point silver-yellow star to base, all round gilt inscription “Der Mahler wohnt auf den Spanischen Spitalberg N=227”, height 11 cm, lip and Ranft minimally chipped, Anton Kothgasser, Vienna, around 1815 (Ru)

Lit.: Rudolf von Strasser, Die Einschreibebüchlein des Wiener Glas- und Porzellanmalers Anton Kothgasser, 1977, p. 10, “Anton Kothgasser Glas-Mahler wohnt auf den Spannischen Spithalberg bey S. Anna Nr. 227 im ersten Stock auf die Gasse die Thier Lings” ["Anton Kothgasser glass painter lives on the Spahhische Spithalberg at the house of S. Anna No. 227 in the first floor, the door on the left of the street"]; p. 11, Zweite Geschäftskarte Anton Kothgassers Slg. Mahler [Second business card of Anton Kothgasser, painter], Ill. 3;
Anton Kothgasser, Vienna, 1769-1851, porcelain and glass painter from 1781 at the Vienna Academy of Arts, studied figure painting with the German painter Heinrich Füger, from 1784 to 1840 employment at the Viennese Porzellanmanufaktur as the most significant design painter, painter no. 96. From 1811 onwards, he engaged himself with glass painting next to and independently from his Manufaktur work. He received his introduction to glass painting from Gottlob Samuel Mohn, who was twenty years his junior and had moved to Vienna in 1811. He received numerous awards, a.o. on September 6, 1811 and on May 20, 1816 the permission to work on his glass painting at home for some months (“Bei seiner Glasmalerei zu Hause zu arbeiten auf einige Monate”). He first worked on sheet glass painting, but soon preferred hollow glass painting using transparent enamel paint (transparent painting). This technique was invented by Samuel Mohn, who worked on it in particular in the time 1815-1830.