Lot 16 Dα

Daniel Preissler (1636 - 1733) is first documented as a glass painter in the Peterhansel glass studio in Friedrichswald (now Orlické Záhoří) in 1675. In the late 17th century, he and his son Ignaz (1676 - 1741) were employed as glass painters by Count Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky in Kronstadt. Brožková published a contract for the completion of twelve reverse glass paintings signed by Daniel Preissler of Kunštát and Count Christoph Wenzel of Nostitz-Rokitnitz (Kryštof Václav z Nostic-Rokytnice, 1648 - 1712), the owner of one of the estates adjacent to Kolowrat, on 10th August 1704. It was specified that the works should use good quality gold and flawless mirror glass (Brožková, p. 99).
The document proves that both artists were familiar with the eglomisé technique. The present work also illustrates the mastery of monochrome painting for which Ignaz Preissler would later be famed as a porcelain painter.
Several reverse glass paintings in eglomisé technique by Daniel and Ignaz Preissler after designs by the Augsburg painter and engraver Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder (1666 - 1742) with motifs from the War of the Spanish Succession are documented in specialist literature. These include a seven-part series in the Burger-Walter collection in Strasbourg published in the catalogue Reflets de lumiére, Colmar 2003, illus. 28 and two paintings in the Decorative Arts Museum in Prague (Brožková, illus. p. 124 f.).