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A rare Austrian Zwischengoldglas 'friendship' portrait beaker by Johann Josef Mildner, Gutenbrunn, dated 1792 image 1

Lot 152

A rare Austrian Zwischengoldglas 'friendship' portrait beaker by Johann Josef Mildner, Gutenbrunn, dated 1792

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1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,000

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A rare Austrian Zwischengoldglas 'friendship' portrait beaker by Johann Josef Mildner, Gutenbrunn, dated 1792

Of cylindrical form, reserved with an oval portrait medallion of a gentleman in profile, wearing a red jacket and powdered wig, within a formal gilt stiff-leaf frame, the reverse inscribed 'Freundschaft/ ist das schönste Band/ was nur je ein Mensch/ erfand/ 1792' (Friendship is the nicest bond which ever happened to a man) above 'Mildner Gutenbrunn', the rim and base with applied rings containing floral and gilt-line borders on a ruby ground, the inner rim inscribed 'Wahren Freunde Freundschaftspflicht endert sich im bode nicht' (True Friends' Friendship does not end in the ground), the inner base with a flower against a ruby ground, the underside with a gilt star, 11.2cm high

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Provenance
Christie's sale, 30 September 2014, lot 101

Johann Joseph Mildner (1763-1808) worked for Josef von Fürnberg (1742-1799) at his Gutenbrunn glasshouse of Saggraben where he specialised in portraiture and Zwischengoldglas. A Mildner portrait beaker of Count Sedlnitzky wearing an identical coat and cravat, dated 1798, in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst or MAK (inv. no.GL 3042) is illustrated by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Christian Kuhn, Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit (2017), p.25. For a catalogue of signed and dated pieces by Mildner see Gustav Pazaurek and Eugen von Philippovich, Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit (1976), pp.297-326 where a similar portrait beaker dated 1792 in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.54.3.13) is illustrated at p.304, fig.291. The present beaker is not recorded.

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