Water vessel (Càntir)
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18th–19th century · Glass · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This distinctively Catalan form of communal drinking vessel evolved during the seventeenth century, although the very fine examples shown here are later. One spout is for filling and the other for drinking without having the vessel touch the mouth.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 18th–19th century
- Medium
- Glass
- Culture
- Spanish, Catalonia
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883
