Breslau ca 1675 see Rosenberg 1369
Maker Gottfried Vogel, see Hintze Nr.111 and page 171
Special feature of the silver screw-top bottles
Most of the 17th century screw-top bottles preserved today are made of pewter, earthenware, and silver-mounted glass, but rarely of pure silver. In Carl Hernmarck’s “The Art of European Gold- and Silversmiths 1450–1830, Munich 1978”, no screw-on bottles are described as storage vessels. Only a few collections, for example the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, have silver screw-top bottles. These have not been preserved to a large extent, as they often showed signs of use due to the sensitivity of the thread on the cover and had to be melted down. The bulbous, richly decorated screw-top bottles were not used as canteens for drinks, but to store particularly valuable spices such as ginger
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