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While intended primarily as drinking vessels, small beakers of this type were sometimes adapted as containers for sacred relics. Seals impressed into the wax used to cap the vessels often provide a means of dating them.
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Title: Beaker (Krautstrunk)
Date: late 15th or early 16th century
Geography: Made in possibly the Valley of the Lower Rhine, Germany
Culture: German
Medium: Free-blown glass with applied decoration
Dimensions: Overall: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Classification: Glass-Vessels
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid, 1977
Object Number: 1977.343
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