Cabbage drink

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Two herb stalks with tip nubs from the Spessart (estimated 16th century), Wertheim Glass Museum , the right one with a jagged foot

The Krautstrunk is a medieval glass beaker from the 15th century and early 16th century with melted nubs . It is an early form of forest glass and thus a forerunner of the Roman . Its production was widespread in Germany and the Netherlands.

Appearance

The herb stalk has a bulbous shape and, like every forest glass, is green or brown in color. It stands on a foot ring (also called a standing ring ). On the wall are the knobs, which - in contrast to the finer berry knobs later on the Roman's stem - point upwards in a chunky, coarse, irregularly pointed shape; With a little imagination, such a vessel can look like a bare white cabbage stalk that gave this type of glass its name. Often, but not necessarily, the beaded wall is delimited from the lip edge of the cup by a circumferential glass thread.

use

Cabbage drink with lace soups (estimated 16th century), National Museum Warsaw

The cabbage drink was an everyday drinking vessel for beer and wine, but was occasionally also used as an altar wine and reliquary container. This can be proven in individual cases when such vessels were found on altars.

In addition to their decorative component, the knobs also had the practical purpose of preventing the glass from falling out of the hand.

history

In the course of the 16th century, the cabbage drink was replaced by a finer shape - a shaft-like, elongated foot and conical wall - while retaining the nub decoration; this type is called Berkemeyer and is the immediate predecessor of the Roman.

There are many replicas from the historicist era , although the shape is not reduced to the type of the medieval mug. In the 19th century cabbage drink, there are tip nubs on numerous wall shapes in combination with different foot and shaft shapes.

While the historicist variant is still often traded at auctions and contemporary replicas are available on the open market, the authentic medieval herb drink is usually museum stock today.

literature

  • Günter Schade: German glass from the beginning to Biedermeier . Leipzig, Koehler & Amelang, 1968
  • Ignatz von Schlosser: The old glass . 2nd edition Verlag Klinkhardt and Biermann Braunschweig, 1965.