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A SMALL GLASS BEAKER (KRAUTSTRUNK)
Lot 120 PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION

A SMALL GLASS BEAKER (KRAUTSTRUNK)

CIRCA 1500, PROBABLY GERMAN

Closed6 December 2012

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A SMALL GLASS BEAKER (KRAUTSTRUNK)
CIRCA 1500, PROBABLY GERMAN
Of watery-green tint, of swelling form with an everted tim, applied with two uneven bands of prunts below a thread, supported by a pincered footrim
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high

The Dettmers Collection of European Glass; Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1999, lot 24.

Specialist note

For a discussion on Kratstrünke see Erwin Baumgartner and Ingeborg Kreuger, Phönix aus sand und Asche Glas des Mittelalters, Munich, 1988, pp. 336-351 and nos. 403 and 404, see also Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Munich, 1982, Vol. I, pp. 45-46, nos. 14-15, pl. 4.