Burgundy wine glass, cheese dome, wine decanter and wine cooler

burgundy wine glass, burgundy wine glasses

Burgundy wine glass, cheese dome, wine decanter
and wine cooler

Make a selection of burgundy wine glasses with a grape motif.
Choose matching sets with cheese dome, wine decanter and wine
cooler for gifts. Each burgundy wine glass is etched in gold leaf.

Wine glasses have been used since ancient times.

Pliny the Elder, an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher (23–79 A.D.)
wrote about gold and silver drinking vessels being abandoned in favor of glass, and
they were frequently priced as high as the precious metal versions. Bonifacio
Veronese’s sixteenth-century ‘Last Supper’ includes modern style wine glasses with
a stem and foot.

The oldest surviving European wine glasses with a stem and foot are fifteenth-
century enameled goblets (a goblet is a glass holding more than four ounces of liquid.

Near the end of the sixteenth-century in Germany sophisticated engraved decoration
was applied to covered wine glasses.

The earliest surviving English wine glasses are diamond-engraved glasses that were
produced near the end of the sixteenth-century by Verzelini. Plain straight stems
gained popularity around 1740, with air twist stems being introduced about the same
time. Ten years later a twist incised on the exterior of the stem became popular.

Quality crystal wine glasses were being produced in France near the end of the
eighteenth-century.

Cordial glasses in the eighteenth-century had bowls of the same shapes that were
typical for wine glasses, but they were much smaller, holding about one ounce.