Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2011–June 2012
Beaker
about 1825
Possibly workshop of Anton Kothgasser
Overall: 12.1 x 8.9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Glass with enamel decoration
Classification: Glass
Culture: Austrian (Vienna)
Accession number: 2012.122
Description: "Nachtglas" beaker with stars and moon
Provenance/Ownership History: Probably by the mid-1930s, Josef Mahler (b. 1886 – d. 1963) and Fritzi Forster Mahler (b. 1897 - d. 1990), Vienna and Larchmont, NY [see note 1]; September 27, 1994, posthumous J[osef] M[ahler] collection sale, Wiener Kunstauktionen, Vienna, lot 212, sold to Joseph Koerner, London and Cambridge, MA; 2012, gift of Joseph and Margaret Koerner to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2012)
Gift of the Margaret K. Koerner and Joseph Leo Koerner family