Ranft cup
Ground Ranft beaker with blue overlay
The Ranft beaker is a special glass vessel.
Appearance
The beaker-shaped glass has a bell-shaped wall and a base plate with a slightly protruding bead, the eponymous Ranft. The often finger-thick Ranft (outdated term for rim) has either vertical notches, facets , polished cuboids with beveled edges or fluting . The base of the glass often has a multi-pointed star as a notched cut decoration. The vessel wall can be painted or sanded.
Ranft cups were particularly popular in the Empire and Biedermeier as " friendship cups " and souvenir glasses.
literature
- Walter Spiegl: Glass . Battenberg Verlag, Munich 1979, p. 32, ISBN 3-87045-155-6 .
- Georg Himmelträger , Brigitte Thanner, Karl Otmar Aretin: Art of Biedermeier, 1815-1835 , Prestel-Verlag, 1988
Web links
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