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Other pairs or single bottles of this type with decoration attributed to Ignaz Preissler are known. Most have similar mythological scenes with naked or scantily clad figures, often combined with a Rhine landscape on the back. Ignaz Preissler was an independent decorator of porcelain and glass. He used a small range of low-firing enamel colours on blanks he derived from different sources. This type of bottle was used for spirits. An even number of such bottles would fit in wooden box or 'cabinet', each bottle containing a different type of spirit.\nThe bacchanalian scene on this bottle probably shows the drunken Silenus, a rural God in Greek mythology and one of the followers of the god of wine, Bacchus. The scene is alomost certainly derived from an engraving. As somewhat simalar scene is the subject of a painting by Otto van Veen (1556-1629), PUTTI ENACTING A BACCHANALIAN SCENE, kept in the Green Closet at Ham House, Richmond-upon-Thames (National Trust).","physicalDescription":"Octagonal glass flask, mould-blown and cut, with enamelled decoration of a bacchanalian scene in black, purple, yellowish brown and red. On the back a town by a river taken from a drawing showing Bingen-on-the Rhine by Wenzel Hollar. Painted insects on the shoulders and on the base.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Preissler, Ignaz","id":"A865"},"association":{"text":"enameller","id":"AAT25258"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"glass","id":"AAT10797"}],"techniques":[{"text":"glassblowing","id":"AAT53932"},{"text":"cutting","id":"AAT233397"},{"text":"enamelling","id":"x36974"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Clear, colourless glass, mouldblown and cut, with enamelled decoration","categories":[{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"},{"text":"ELISE","id":"THES48961"},{"text":"Glass","id":"THES48946"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2014GX3999","2014GX4000","2014GX3997","2014GX3998","2024NW2571","2024NW2570","2024NW2569","2024NW2568","2024NW2567","2024NW2566","2024NW2565","2024NW2564","2024NW2563","2006AN6376","2017JW4655","2017JW4687"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"131","id":"THES49882"},"free":"","case":"51","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"flasks (bottles)","id":"AAT45671"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bohemia","id":"x28753"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1720-30","earliest":"1720-01-01","latest":"1730-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Wilfred Buckley Collection","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"184","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"05.12.12","earliest":"2012-12-05","latest":"2012-12-05"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"95","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"05.05.12","earliest":"2012-05-05","latest":"2012-05-05"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"73","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"05.05.12","earliest":"2012-05-05","latest":"2012-05-05"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Wilfred Buckley Collection","historicalContext":"This type of bottle was used for spirits. A number of such bottles would fit in wooden box or 'cabinet', each bottle containing a different type of spirit.","briefDescription":"Glass flask with enamelled decoration in black, purple, yellowish brown and red by Ignaz Preissler, Bohemia, 1720-30 ","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"A. Mueller-Hofstede, Der Schlesisch-Boehmische Hausmaler Ignaz Preissler, Keramos, 100 (1983), pp. 14-19, fig. 18-19"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"R. Liefkes, Glaswerk uit drie Utrechtse kastelen, Oud Zuilen 1989.pp. 69-71, for another example of such a flask in Castle-Museum Sypesteyn and discussion of the V&A flasks."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"A. McConnell, The decanter: An Illustrated History of Glass from 1680, Woodbridge, 2004, p. 128, fig. 183 for another pair.  "}],"production":"A similar pair of flasks sold at Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1977, lot 194. These included the arms of the Loen von Anhalt-Dernstadt in Saxony-Anhalt and depicted, on one, a scene of the infant Bacchus, after a woodcut by Jost Amman (1539-1591), and on the other, a scene of men and women feasting in a woodland after an engraving by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) entitled 'The Sinfulness of Mankind'. The former is now in the Corning Museum of Glass (78.3.3) and the latter is in the Schloss Museum Berlin.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["C.338-1936"],"accessionNumberNum":"338","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1936,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Glass gallery number","id":"THES50491"},"number":"9856"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-27","recordCreationDate":"1998-10-19","availableToBook":false}}