We retain a small stock mid-18th century wine-glasses though we do not specialise in them. However, we do retain a broad stock of pieces dating from c1770. Principally, this includes many large ‘rummer’ wine goblets and smaller glasses of the period together with decanters, rinsers and finger-bowls, and so on.
Decanters
The beauty of decanters is two fold:
1: They work! In a recent blind tasting at Glass Etc, 30 guests were asked in a to mark the same wine presented to them in three different ways: served straight from the bottle, from bottles opened four hours previously and that had been decanted for four hours. The result was a remarkable 85% score for the decanted wine.
2: They are beautiful objects. With glass increasingly admired for its sculptural properties,
decanters often represent glass at its most attractive.
Such is the diversity of decanters that in just six months, I have picked up pictures of another 1,000 examples, on top of those 2,500 illustrated in the original book. The first contained about 160,000 words but the new one [publication date not yet envisaged] will be far lighter on text as there is relatively little to add.
In this light, it is predicable that Glass Etc stocks a wide range of decanters: from the late-18th century to the present; from miniatures through pints and quarts to magnums through plain and richly decorated to colourless and tinted