Live Auction 9441Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A GLASS BEAKER (KRAUTSTRUNK)
Lot 190

A GLASS BEAKER (KRAUTSTRUNK)

EARLY 16TH CENTURY, GERMANY

Closed1 October 2013

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GBP 1,187

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A GLASS BEAKER (KRAUTSTRUNK)
EARLY 16TH CENTURY, GERMANY
With everted rim above a wide cylindrical body with twelve large hollow prunts, on a pincered foot with outer coil
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a discussion of this rare form see Erwin Baumgartner and Ingeborg Kreuger, Phönix aus Sand und Asche, Glas des Mittelalters, Munich, 1988, p. 354, no. 430, where a krautstrunk with smaller prunts and a higher openwork foot is illustrated.