Co-Founder of the Family Dynasty
of Karlsbad Glass Cutters
Pfeiffer, Josef Anton (1807 Karlsbad c. 1870). The female hound with six puppies in a strawlaid shed. On the right low wooden water trough. Body colour heigthened with white with partial white glazing. On the back inscribed in ink by own hand: J. Anton Pfeiffer / 1825. 40 x 55 cm.
Th.-B. XXVI, 527. – Youth work Josef Anton’s, who together with his elder brother Anton Heinrich represents the start of the family clan of Karlsbad glass cutters. See hereto also Pazaurek, Gläser der Empire und Biedermeierzeit, Leipsic 1923. – Lower right in pencil by different hand: Ant. Pfeiffer 1825. – Top with narrow paper margin, else trimmed at, partly just inside the border line. At the right margin at three places traces of former mounting reaching up to 5 mm into the image.
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