Beaker with view of the Stephansdom, Vienna

Decorator Gottlob Samuel Mohn Austrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 554

View of the Stephansdom, or Saint Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna) in bright translucent enamel. The artist, Gottlob Samuel Mohn, was the son of Samuel Mohn (1762–1815) of Dresden, the creator of highly translucent enamels for painting on glass with miniature, delicate effects. Gottlob went to Vienna in 1811 and there communicated the art to Anton Kothgasser and other glass painters.

Beaker with view of the Stephansdom, Vienna, Gottlob Samuel Mohn (Austrian, Weissenfels 1789–1825 Laxenburg), Glass, Austrian, Vienna

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