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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Alembic Cap

19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Germany (made)
Egypt (made)

This glass cap with extended spout is from an alembic, a type of flask used for distillation.


Object details

Categories
Glass
Science
SCRAN
Africa
Object type
Alembic cap
Materials and techniques
Glass
Brief description
Cap of an alembic, possibly Germany, 1800-1900
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.6cm
  • Maximum width: 8.5cm
Styles
ISLAM
WALDGLAS
Production
H.E.Henkes from Rotterdam (14-9-1993) says this prob. not Egyptian 6th century but German, French or English, 15th to 17th century!
Summary
This glass cap with extended spout is from an alembic, a type of flask used for distillation.
Bibliographic references
  • Carboni, S., and Whitehouse, D. Glass of the Sultans, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001 p.78
  • fig. in Lamm (1930;table I,no.17) 6th-8th century. Annales du 10e Congrès de l'AIHV, 1985 pp.361-372: Stephen Moorhouse 'Medieval industrial glassware in the British Isles'.
Other number
8685 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
337-1900

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O833/alembic-cap-unknown/
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