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Flattened/disc shape (canteens & flasks)
- A ceramic costrel, made in the Andenne region, c. 1050-1200
- Flight into Egypt by Giotto di Bondone, 1304-1306
- The flask of St. Rupert, c. 1345-1400
- A ceramic flask from Regensburg, 14th-15th century
- Flask-makers in the Mendel Hausbuch: Trewhel Flaschensmid (c. 1425), Burckhard Flasner (c. 1425), Fortsch (1435), Heincz Sebacher (1442), Kunrat Eschenloer (1468), Lorentz von Manhaym (1552), Eberhart Deürner (1608)
- Acorns, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 12), 15th century
- Flask made in Rhineland in the 15th century
- Canteen (back) made in Rhineland in the 15th century
- Canteen made in the northern Rhineland in the 15th century
- Canteen with heraldic engraving made in Rhineland in the 15th century (color photo)
- Flask (front), end of the 15th century
- Detail from St. John the Baptist and St. Jodocus, c. 1425-1435
- February in a book of hours (PML M.1003, fol. 2r), c. 1465
- Abraham sends Hagar away, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 44v), 1463
- A leather flask from South Tyrol, 15th-16th century
- A leather flask from South Tyrol, 15th-16th century
- St. Joseph in The Flight into Egypt from the Birth of Christ altarpiece in Bardejov, Slovakia, c. 1490-1500
- Detail from St. James the Greater baptizing Philetus by Simon von Taisten, c. 1495-1505
- Detail from the Apostles' Farewell in an altarpiece at Graz, 1499
- A leather flask, 15th-16th century
- May (fol. 4r) and Abigail pacifies David (fol. 276v), The Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (PML M.52), c. 1500
- St. Joseph in The Flight into Egypt by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500-1502
- Canteen (also here) covered in tooled leather, made in Tyrol (?) c. 1500-1515
- Flask (back) made in Rhineland in the first half of the 16th century
- Annunciation to the shepherds, a book of hours (PML M.166, fol. 78v), c. 1500-1510
- A shepherd in The Birth of Christ, 1506
- Detail in a Tyrolean The Apostles' Farewell, c. 1510-1520
- May (fol. 6v) and Mark the Evangelist (fol. 119v), The Da Costa Hours (PML M.399), c. 1515
- July (fol. 7r) and August (fol. 8r), a book of hours (PML M.632), c. 1520
- The Birth of the Virgin by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1525
- A boy with a beaker and a canteen from a fresco by Ulrich Springinklee in Bruneck, South Tyrol, 1526
- June (fol. 7r) and July (fol. 8r), a book of hours (PML M.452), c. 1530-1535
- Several 16th century examples in the Museum of London's Ceramics and Glass collection
- The Turner, Das Ständebuch, 1568
- Flask of Emperor Rudolph II, made in Istanbul c. 1581
- A metal flask, c. 1595-1605
Cylinder shape (costrels)
- A pilgrim follows the Devil disguised as a pilgrim, Vita et miraculae sancti Benedicti (PML M.55, fol. 11v), early 14th century
- Detail from the Voyage of the Magi fresco from the Chapel of St. Victor at Neustift, c. 1350-1360
- Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Bartolo di Fredi, c. 1383
- Leather costrel, late 14th century
- Hunters pausing, 15th century, in Gason Phoebus' Book of the Hunt
- Bacchus and his followers drinking, Collected Works of Christine de Pisan (British Library MS Harley 4431, fol. 106), 1410-1411
- The miracle of the palm tree, a book of hours (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, MS 1274, fol. 060v), c. 1415-1449
- Flight into Egypt, a book of hours (PML M.1000, fol. 94r), c. 1420
- Detail from The Nativity by Friedrich von Villach, c. 1420-1430
- A leather costrel, 15th century
- A ceramic costrel, Eggenburg, 15th century
- Illustration in Aristotle's Politics and Economics (BnF Fr 22500), 15th century
- Allegory of poverty, in De casibus (BNF Fr. 229, fol. 35v), 15th century
- Adoration of the Magi by Stefano da Zevio, 1435 (the shepherds in the back of the painting)
- Left wing of the Cavalry Triptych by Hugo van der Goes, 1465-1468
- June, The Hours of Louis XII (Lewis E M 11:20), c. 1490-1510
- March (fol. 2) and July (fol. 4), The Feast of Dives (fol. 134v), in the Hours of Henry VIII (PML H.8), c. 1500
- Detail from The Flight to Egypt by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500-1502
- A few different styles in the Apostles' Farewell (c. 1500-1505); St. James the Greater has a wooden costrel; another apostle has a flask with a smiling face
- Balsam harvest, The Book of Simple Medicines (BNF Fr. 12322, fol. 187v), c. 1520-1530
- The harvest in July, in the Augsburger Monatsbilder, 1520s
- Costrels from the Mary Rose, 1545
- Costrel, late 17th century
- Costrel, late 17th century, with the intials B.H. cut into one end
