Bottle

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A flacon is a vessel, usually made of cut glass, with a narrow neck and a round shape as a belly, in which perfume is usually stored.

In the German dictionary , the or the bottle is regarded as a screw bottle "with spiritual and fragrant things" as its content and generally used as a smelling bottle .

etymology

The word itself comes from French and was leaned back into German in the 18th century , after it was initially borrowed from the West Germanic flasca ( Gothic : flasco ; later bottle ) for a vessel designation by Roman soldiers in Romanic .

Appearance

Flacons in various shapes

There is a wide variety of bottles and can be of almost any color . Round or angular, wide or slim - it is rare that one perfume bottle is the same as another. Often the shapes of a female, filigree silhouette or the shape of an animal such as a gooseneck are modeled.

history

In the first two centuries AD, the Syrian glassmakers blew glass vessels, especially flacons, bowls and flasks , often decorated with melted threads, but also with melted Egyptian ornaments in relief .

Around 1900 in the Belle Epoque , perfume became a luxury item . From now on it had a name and was in a bottle.

The European Flacon Glass Museum in Kleintettau am Rennsteig documents and researches the historical development of the bottle, from the beginnings in antiquity to the modern age .

Museums

  • The European Flacon Glass Museum in Kleintettau is especially dedicated to the glass flacon of the perfume and cosmetic culture from antiquity to modern times.
  • The German Packaging Museum in Heidelberg illustrates the functional aspect of the bottle as a packaging medium.
  • The Schwarzkopf Collection of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden contains flacons from different eras and materials with more than 2,000 individual objects .

Web links

Commons : Flasks  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Flakon  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ screw bottle. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 1656 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ^ Barbara Christoph: Museums in Upper Franconia . Ed .: District of Upper Franconia, Service Point for Museums. 1st edition. Self-published, Bayreuth 2013, ISBN 978-3-941065-09-3 , p. 158 f .
  3. ^ Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH (ed.): Longing for perfection . 1st edition. Exhibition catalog, from May 18, 1995. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-87024-332-5 .