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Kuttrolf

Object NameBottle

Made FromGlass

Date300-399

Place MadeRoman Empire; Germany

Techniquemold-blown, tooled, applied

SizeOverall H (max): 13.6 cm, Diam (max): 5.8 cm

Accession Number63.1.7

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

In Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Three (2003), David Whitehouse published this kuttrolf (a flask with a neck divided into multiple tubes) as a possible example of 19th-century Historismus. Recent research indicates the object is ancient and was made in the 4th century.

Physical DescriptionLight bluish green, transparent glass; parison partly inflated in dip-mold, withdrawn, and inflated to full size, pinched, handles applied. Bottle: mid section of body pinched into four vertical tubes separated by diaphragms. Rim folded out, up and in to form horizontal flange; neck short, cylindrical, slightly wider at bottom than at top, with diaphragm at bottom made by folding; body divided into three parts, with small bulbous section at top, long, pinched section in middle, and hemispherical section at bottom; base plain, with low kick; annular pontil mark. Top and bottom sections of body have faint ribs which swirl down from left to right; pinched section has more prominent, criss-cross pattern of ridges. Two similar, opposed handles, with circular cross section, dropped onto uppermost section of body, drawn up and in, and attached to edge of rim, with excess glass drawn up and over.
Provenance

Source Wilhelm Henrich - 1963-01-28

Former Collection Fritz Fremersdorf
In Fremersdorf's possession in 1931, begin and end dates unknown.