Trunk cup
The trunk cup ( English claw beaker ) is a mostly bulbous glass cup or cup from the 6th to 7th centuries . The basic shape of the trunk cup consists of a tall, conical or bell-shaped cup with a widened rim and a high, disc-shaped base. The characteristic proboscis are placed on this basic shape as a hot glass mass and blown out from the inside of the mug. The drops were then drawn out with the tweezers and placed on the bottom of the vessel wall.
Early pieces (2nd half of the 6th century) have highly plastic proboscis in two clearly separated rows, later the proboscis become flatter and the rows less clearly distinguishable from one another, while the late proboscis at the turn of the century only had one proboscis row.
The trunk cups are usually light green, yellow or olive green or blue green. As a rule, these are natural colors that can be traced back to contamination of the quartz sand required for production with iron oxides. The color could also be achieved in a targeted manner, for example by adding copper oxides. The glasses are also often and very heavily riddled with bubbles, black soot particles and streaks. This could be an intended type of ornament.
Most of the trunk cups were made by Franconian glassblowers on the Lower Rhine or in Belgium and exported to large parts of Europe. The trunk cups are mainly found in men's graves. They were reserved for the wealthy class of the population.
See also
literature
- Christiane Neuffer-Müller: Franconian trunk cups from Württemberg . In: Thea Elisabeth Haevernick (Ed.): Festschrift for Waldemar Haberey . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1976, ISBN 3-8053-0153-7 , pp. 89-94.
- U. Koch: The round mountain near Urach VI - The glass and precious stone finds from the plan excavations 1967-1983, Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, Heidelberg 1987.
