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Beaker (Krautstrunk)

late 15th or early 16th century
On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 10
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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