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Tedious. - Schmidt, Robert

The Glasses of the Mühsam Collection. Descriptive catalog with art historical introduction. 2 volumes

Berlin, 1914-1926

Folio. 150 pages and approximately 280 illustrations on 72 collotype plates. Original cloth binding. - A complete copy of the almost untraceable catalog. Jacques Mühsam owned the highest-quality collection of post-antique glass at the time. The main emphasis was on German and Dutch glass from the 17th to 19th centuries. The collection is divided into Dutch and German diamond-cut and punctured glass, cut Silesian, Bohemian, and Nuremberg glass from the 17th to 18th centuries, Brandenburg glass of various origins, Zwischengold glass, Mildner glass, glass with transparent enamel painting, Empire and Biedermeier glass. This work is one of the rarest in glass literature. Only 350 numbered copies were printed.

€1,500

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