34c Detail of screw threads. 34 D Detail of top.
34 F Cipriano Piccolpasso (Italian, 1523-1579). Detail of folio 5v from Li tre
libri dell'arte del vasaio (1557). London, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Piccolpasso illustrates the manner in which tops could be made with
threads to screw a top securely onto a flask or bottle. Parallel strips
would be formed using a toothed instrument; they would then be cut
and shifted to create spiral threads. The Getty flask uses a male neck
that fits into a female top, whereas Piccolpasso illustrates the reverse
method.
34E Cipriano Piccolpasso (Italian, 1523-1579). Folio 5R from Li tre libri
dell'arte del vasaio (1557). London, Victoria and Albert Museum.he then functioned solely as capo-bottega (workshop di
rector) is not known.
Fontana flasks with very similar marine-inspired
decoration and of identical shape and size, very possibly
made from the same mold as the present work, include
examples in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braun
schweig (inv. 919),^7 and in the Helen Foresman Spencer
Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas (inv. 60.76).^8 Another
flask of the same shape but decorated with the subject
of Myrrha and Adonis is in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.^9 Still other Fontana workshop
examples of the same flask form but with grotesque
decoration are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lon
don (inv. 8408-1863, 8409-1963),^10 and formerly in190 Pilgrim Flask with Marine Scenes