Bottle
Also titled Fles
c. 1680 - c. 1685
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze, faience
- Classification
- fles
- Dimensions
- height 42 cm x width 20.8 cm x depth 17.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Vessels of this form are often referred to as pilgrim flasks because they resemble the bottles travellers carried on a strap hanging from their belt on long journeys. This one probably derives from silver models that no longer had any practical function, but instead simply embellished formally laid tables or sideboards.
