A rare Krautstrunk

3 - A rare Krautstrunk

A rare Krautstrunk German, 15th century Lightgreen glass with pontil, milled foot, corpus with twelve applications and fine applied yarn. 7 cm high Nuppenauflagen. Unterhalb des Lippenrandes eingeschnürt und mit feiner Fadenauflage Provenance: The A. Vecht Collection, Amsterdam. This krautstrunk hailed from a cloister in Austria and was exposed in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1936 (no. 680). It was offered by Sotheby's on 10th November 1938 (Collection: "A Property of an Amateur, a well-known Collector", no. 69) but the auction didn't take place. Dr. Fischer also sold with success some objects from this important collection. Der Krautstrunk war eines der beliebtesten und verbreitetsten Trinkgläser in Europa The krautstrunk was one of the most popular types of drinking glasses in central Europe, during the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. This type of glass always has a distinctive green colour, which is caused by natural impurities of iron-oxide in the raw materials. This type of green glass was made across central Europe in itinerant workshops located in the woods. The trees provided the wood to stoke the glass furnaces, while plant ash was used as one of the key ingredients of the glass. Once a substantial area of the forest was cleared of its trees and undergrowth, the whole glasshouse would move to a new location.

Rheinland, 15. Jh.

Catalogueprice: 15.000 - 25.000 €

Result: 25.000,00 EUR

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