Scrub (vessel)

Late Gothic barn with three medallion supports. (Redrawing)

Scheuer is the name for a drinking vessel shape from the late Middle Ages and early modern times . The late Gothic form is particularly widespread in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Scrubbing is similar to a cup and could be used in a comparable way. They usually have a flat spherical vessel body with a foot and a raised rim, as well as a handle that was placed on the shoulder and cut off at the end. They were made of glass, wood or silver. Ceramic scrubs are only known from Siegburg stoneware from the Rhineland . Two cups placed one on top of the other were also called double scourers, with the top cup forming the lid.

Web links

• Scheuer in The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann .

literature

• Erwin Baumgartner, Ingeborg Krueger: Phoenix made of sand and ashes. Medieval glass. Munich 1988, p. 381 ff, ISBN 3-7814-0278-9 .
• Elsa Hähnel: Siegburg stoneware. von Zabbern, Cologne 1992 (2 volumes), volume 1, pp. 186 f, ISBN 978-3-8053-3453-2 .

Remarks

1. ^ Gisela Reineking von Bock: Steinzeug. Catalogs of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne, Volume IV. Cologne 1986. P. 100.
2. ↑ Doppelscheuer in The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann .