Bottle

Bohemia or Germany, 1670

Cast pewter with engraved decoration. Hexagonal bottle with a screw cap and moulded handle. Decorated with engraved stylised flowers, the monogram “D K. A”, and year 1670. Individual fields are framed with engraved patterns.

H: 18 cm

UMP 19008

Portable hexagonal bottles with screw caps were popular in southern Germany, Saxony, and Bohemia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.