Screw Top for a Bottle (Schraubflasche)
c. 1660–80
Maker Unknown
Decorative Art and Design
Screw Top for a Bottle (Schraubflasche), c. 1660–80. Germany, Bavaria, Kreussen. Pewter; overall: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charles G. King, Jr. 1918.327.b Bottles or jars (kruken) of this type of six-sided form are most often associated with the ceramic tradition found in Kreussen (now Creussen) in the Bavarian region of Germany during the mid to late 1600s. With a threaded neck fitted with a pewter screw top and ring, they were ideal vessels for medicinal liquids as they could be easily connected to a belt for transport to the patient. Applied decoration depicting the twelve apostles, as on this example, allude to the spiritual nature of healing. This screw top adorns the top of a bottle.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- pewter
- Medium
- pewter
- Dimensions
- Overall: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1918.327.b
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles G. King, Jr.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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