Covered cup and saucer
Anton Kothgasser
ca. 1800
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Cup: h. 10.6 cm; saucer: diam. 14.6 cm
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.1605a-c
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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...