Prunted Beaker (Krautstrunk variant)

Glasses of this type were already an established form around 1400. These beakers were made of Waldglas or forest glass, so called because they were produced in forest glasshouses where there were plentiful supplies of wood fuel for the furnaces. From the beginning, these factories mainly produced utilitarian wares: window glass, bottles, and simple vessels. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the vessels consisted chiefly of certain standard forms, which seem to have been made over large areas. This beaker, with its vertical rows of applied prunts and pincered foot ring, is a variant of the type known as a Krautstrunk or "cabbage stalk."