porcelain, 6 pieces: 1 octagonal presentation platter height 3.2 cm, 30 x 38.5 cm, 1 coffee pot with cover height 15.5 cm, interior to rim of cover very slightly chipped, 1 milk jug with cover height 14 cm, 1 teapot with cover height 13.5 cm, 1 jug height 13 cm, 1 sugar bowl with cover height 9.5 cm, Leithner’s blue cylindrical bulging body with narrow and wide Leithner’s gold edges, bright gold bead rows painted in impasto manner, floral festoons, arched borders, frieze with bright gold acanthus leaves, flower buds, meander and garlands of flowers, cover with gold pine finial, angular and round gold handle with leaf terminals on blue ground and each with 3 feet with gold leaf volutes
underglaze blue Austrian shield, dated 1796, 1797, Sorgenthal era, turner no. 12 Franz Schwaiger 1785–1804, no. 26 Anton Zimmerl 1783–1812, no. 33 Heinrich Sabyesky 1783–1787, gilder no. 114 Johann Teufel 1792–1839 (Ru)

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Wilhelm Mrazek, Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718–1864, MAK 1970: Leithner Josef, 1770-1829 at the manufactory, student at the Vienna Academy, from 1770 onwards flower painter, from 1785 to 1787 senior painter at the manufactory, after 1797 ‘arcanist’. Inventor of the colour "Leithnerblau" in 1792, "Leithnergold" in 1793, recipient of a gold medal ("goldene Medaille mit Öhr und Band") on 30.12.1812. He celebrated his 54th year of service on 2.8.1824, and took over the stewardship from the factory management on 25.9.1829. He retired in 1829.