Szkła z warsztatu Johanna Sigismunda Menzla w kolekcjach muzealnych i prywatnych: konteksty
Glasses un the workshop of Johann Sigismund Menzel's in museum and private collections: contexts

Summary/Abstract: Johann Sigismund Menzel (1744–1810) was active in Cieplice after 1775 as an engraver of glass and stone. From c. 1786 he also decorated glass with double-walled medallions with profile portraits on gold foil. He usually made one medallion or a pair, and sometimes three or five—but these were very rare. Among the exceptions were the medallions with gold initials set against a marbled background or glassware with commemorative inscriptions. Above all, Menzel decorated elaborate goblets with lids, as well as tankards and roemer glasses in this fashion, using glass produced in several glassworks operating in the Jelenia Góra basin. Nearly 100 of his works are known which are housed mostly in museum collections throughout the world.

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