Beaker
Anton Kothgasser
c. 1820/30 or later
Medium
Glass; colorless, cut, transparent enamels and gilding
Dimensions
12 × 8.9 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
drinking vessel
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
87396
About the Artist
Anton Kothgasser · 1769–1851
Anton Kothgasser, born on January 9, 1769, in Vienna, emerged as one of Austria's foremost porcelain and glass painters during the Biedermeier era. Orphaned early by his father Josef's death in 1775, he received initial artistic training from his relative Jakob Petter, a landscape painter at the Viennese Porcelain Manufactory. In 1781, at age twelve, Kothgasser enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts...