leather flask

Pyx

  Pyx A small container, sometimes used for consecrated wafer or bread. Thin hide over wood, the decoration was made using ‘Cuir Boulli’ techniques. Italian 15th century.

Vase

  Painted Vase Moulded from the bladder of a camel. From Moultan, Pakistan, mid 19th cent.

Vase

The collection includes many objects of rawhide and untanned hide from around the world

Painted Vase Moulded from the bladder of a camel. From Moultan, Pakistan, mid – 19th cent. The collection includes many objects of rawhide and untanned hide from…read more »

Flask

Cuirboulli Flask: Casing, probably of a glass bottle, of vellum with finely incised decoration. Said to have been exhumed in France. Perhaps 14th century.

Black Jacks

‘Black Jacks’, ‘Bombards’ and a small jug, wet-moulded in heavy hide, 17th to 19th century. Leather vessels of this kind are a particularly English tradition. The ‘bombard’…read more »