"Stangenglas" (pole glass) with prunts shaped as animal heads, ca. 1475–1525
Light green-yellow and dark blue glass, mould blown, applied
(H x Ø)23,2 × 9,6 cm
About the workThis glass attests to the imagination with which drinking glasses were designed in the first half of the sixteenth century. An example of the “Stangengläser” (“pole glasses”) genre, this tradition continues to this day in the beer glasses of the Rhineland, for example. This specimen was reportedly found in Cologne together with an identical counterpart. The glasses therefore formed at least a pair, if they were not part of a small series. Glasses with prunts shaped as animal heads were most common in the northern and central parts of Germany, from Schleswig-Holstein to Hesse and Thuringia.
AccessionKarl Amendt collection, permanent loan since 1988
Inventory numberLP 2010-141
