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















