so I have done rather a lot of work on glass bottles just like this one (including this one!) -- anyone have a collection that needs a piece on late medieval industrial glass that ISNT about urine flasks? https://twitter.com/PP_Rubens/status/1254361646950166528

afaict late medieval European glass research looks like 1) archaeological work on field glass 2) art historical research into Muranese glass
No art historical work into field glass or work at all in Muranese industrial glass-- tho we know it was the bulk of their product

There're a host of interesting angles to glass-- industrial/field glass wasn't expensive, yet doesn't appear to have been used widely for tableware, even by the wealthy, in many parts of the late MA. Muranese crystal changes that. Why? no one knows.

Was glass simply SO strongly associated w/urine flasks that no one wanted to use it for tableware? Then why does any non-urinoscopy field glass exist at all?
OH NOE I FEEL A BLOG POST COMING ON
(srsly anyone want a column of this stuff bc I can write it honest)

et voila! so much more to say-- someone do a collection so I can write up my findings on these bottles! https://themedievaldrk.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/medieval-european-glass/