Anton Kothgasser

1769 Vienna - 1851 Vienna

  • Title Beaker (Ranftbecher) painted with symbols of love and fidelity
  • Date Vienna, c. 1820
  • Dimensions Height 10.7 cm
  • Provenance Anton Kothgasser
  • Literature Paul von Lichtenberg, Mohn & Kothgasser. Transparent bemaltes Biedermeierglas, Munich 2009, p. 421, ill. 330 and p. 435, ill. 347 - similar motifs

Motifs, symbolically coded, but understood by everybody, as on our Ranftbecher, express the feelings of the Biedermeier period in a truly endearing way. Our glass may have been the romantic herald of an official proposal of marriage.