Bottle with five tubes, 14th/15th century or earlier

MediumGreen glass, blown

(H x Ø)19 × 8,6 cm

Status

on display, room G 04

About the work“Kuttrolf” has been used to describe bottles with a narrow neck since the fourteenth century. Wine or spirits were drunk from them, resulting in gurgling noises, which could be the origin of the name. As early as Roman times, in the third to fourth century AD, there were multi-necked bottles that allowed the wine to flow even more noisily and mix with air. They were made by sucking some air out of the glassmaker’s pipe. This caused the vessel to contract, and the tubes were formed. This complete specimen from the Middle Ages is the only known example to date.

Accessionacquired 1940

Provenanceo.D. Hermann Emden, Hamburg; 3.-7.11.1908 Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, "Sammlung Hermann Emden Hamburg ", Bd. 1, Kat.-Nr. 955, Tafel 80; [...]; spät. 1935 Dr. Johannes Jantzen (Shanghai 1887 - 1972 Bremen), Bremen; 7.1.1941 angekauft von Johannes Jantzen, Bremen

Inventory numberP 1940-43