Maigelein

Maigelein from 15th to 16th centuries Century in the permanent exhibition of the Cologne City Museum

Maigelein inclined with a visible curvature of the floor

The Maigelein is a historical drinking vessel from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century, which was widespread in Germany, France and the Netherlands from the second half of the 15th century.

description

The drinking vessel is a low bowl or bowl-shaped hollow glass with a cone-shaped pierced bottom (comparable to the bottom of a wine bottle) and was primarily made by Rhenish glassblowers from green forest glass. The slightly bulbous wall of the glass is usually provided with decorations in the form of ribs, cross ribs , cuboids, grooves, dents or basket patterns. The decorations were created directly when the glasses were blown out by blowing out the hot glass in a corresponding ornate clay model as a negative form. A second step to apply the decoration was thus omitted.

The Maigelein was later also available in a version with a foot.

Origin of name

The term Maigelein is derived from the Old High German Magel “girl” or Middle High German Miol “mug”.

Web links

• BeyArs art dictionary
• The J. Paul Getty Trust - Figure of a Maigelein
• Maigelein at the Corning Museum of Glass