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Kuttrolf
(c. 1880)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1881
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
A Kuttrolf is a form of flask where the neck is divided into two or more tubes. The form has ancient Roman precedents but became popular with German glassblowers in the Middle Ages. Kuttrolf flasks were produced in Venetian glass and façon de Venise (glass in the Venetian manner) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This revival piece is an example of the reproduction of historical forms favoured by the Venice and Murano Glass Company in the late nineteenth century.
Artwork Details
Purchased, 1881
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