Kuttrolf or Bottle

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Object Name:

Kuttrolf or bottle

Title:

Kuttrolf or Bottle

Department

European

Category

Medieval

Place Made:

probably Germany

Date:

1300-1499

Color

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green

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      - green (ref)

Technique

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tooling

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  - tooling (ref)

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glassblowing

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  - glassblowing (ref)

Material

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glass

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    - inorganic material (ref)
      - glass (ref)

AAT

metal

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      - metal (ref)

AAT

cork

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        cork (ref)

Dimensions:

Overall H: 20.5 cm, Diam (max): 7.1 cm

Accession Number:

56.3.22

Location:

On Display

Description

Transparent light green very bubbly glass; on outside decomposition in form of brownish scurf and slight "frosting", wear marks; free-blown and tooled. Hemispherical bottom with high "kick" and pontil mark, neck consisting of four tubes twisted from left to right, joining at center and converging at top to form one single tube; metal galleried orifice mounted on the glass and having a cork-stopper with metal top and ring.

Provenance

Vecht, A., Source to

Exhibitions (4)
Publications (4)

Exhibitions

Medieval Art in Upstate New York

Venue(s)

Everson Museum of Art 1974-04-11 through 1974-05-13

The Secular Spirit: Life and Art in the End of the Middle Ages

Venue(s)

Cloisters 1975 through 1975

Bottles of the World (Sekai no hei)

Venue(s)

Suntory Museum of Art 1977-03 through 1977-05

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass

Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications

[Research paper on medieval glassware used in alchemy] (2012) illustrated, p. 17 (fig. 6); BIB# 129757

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, p. 212, #102; BIB# 115588

Phonix aus Sand und Asche (1988) illustrated, pp. 320-321, #382; BIB# 32871

Sekai no hei (Bottles of the World) (1977) fig. 83; BIB# 32715

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