The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Screw Top for a Bottle (Schraubflasche)
c. 1660–80
Location: Not on view
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This screw top adorns the top of a bottle.Description
Bottles or jars (kruken) of this type of six-sided form are most often associated with the ceramic tradition found in Kreussen (now Creussen) in the Bavarian region of Germany during the mid to late 1600s. With a threaded neck fitted with a pewter screw top and ring, they were ideal vessels for medicinal liquids as they could be easily connected to a belt for transport to the patient. Applied decoration depicting the twelve apostles, as on this example, allude to the spiritual nature of healing.- {{cite web|title=Screw Top for a Bottle (Schraubflasche)|url=false|author=|year=c. 1660–80|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1918.327.b