Cleveland Museum of Art

Screw Top for a Bottle (Schraubflasche)

Date

c. 1660–80

Medium

pewter

Culture

Germany, Bavaria, Kreussen

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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