Title: Ostrich egg screw-top flask
Object type: Flask
Date: ca. 1600
Artist:  Unknown Maker , probably South German
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Ostrich egg, gilded silver
Dimensions: confirmed: 7 1/8 × 4 13/16 in., 18.693oz. (18.1 × 12.2 cm, 530g)
confirmed ht. with handle up, diameter at foot: 8 1/16 × 3 15/16 in. (20.5 × 10 cm)
Classification: Natural Substances
Credit line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Acquisitions Fund, 2024
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY