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TitleBeaker (Ranftbecher) painted with symbols of love and fidelity
DateVienna, c. 1820
DimensionsHeight 10.7 cm
ProvenanceAnton Kothgasser
LiteraturePaul 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.