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A Bohemian transparent enamelled 'Memento Mori' beaker by August Mohn, dated 1817 image 1
A Bohemian transparent enamelled 'Memento Mori' beaker by August Mohn, dated 1817 image 2
Lot 64

A Bohemian transparent enamelled 'Memento Mori' beaker by August Mohn, dated 1817

2 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Bohemian transparent enamelled 'Memento Mori' beaker by August Mohn, dated 1817

The flared bowl painted with a skull and crossed bones inscribed Memento mori below a band of fruiting vine, the facet-cut solid base part stained in amber, 11cm high, inscribed A Mohn pin. 1817

Footnotes

Provenance:
With Hermann P.Lockner, Würzburg, early 1970s
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 26 May 1981, lot 157

Literature:
Paul von Lichtenberg, Mohn and Kothgasser (bilingual, 2009), p.195

An identical beaker, formerly in the Dr. Johannes Jantzen Collection, is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (see Heinemeyer, Glas (1966), no.443 and von Lichtenberg, op.cit., p.197, pl.96). Gustav Pazaurek in Gläser der Empire und Biedermeierzeit (1923), p.170 also mentions A. Mohn and the beaker with death's head in the collection of Dr. Johannes Jantzen, illustrated in the latter's book Deutsches Glas (1960), no.135, pl.66.

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