Whale - Shoe - Bottle

Is it a shoe? A bottle? Or, a whale? As it turns out, all three: a bottle in the shape of a shoe in the shape of a whale. The exact use of this rather peculiar object remains an intriguing question. Was it actually used as a bottle, or is the removable tail-shaped cork merely decorative? Was it perhaps made by a shoemaker as a masters test before they were allowed to enter the cobbler’s guild? Explore the 3D visualization of this peculiar object from the Rijksmuseum collection (on loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap (KOG)) to look at this object up close and discover the research that has been performed on it using CT scanning and 3D scanning.