Alright, I know I am a child, but I had to show you my latest glass - an English, tear-stem, folded foot, trumpet wine glass dating from 1740, filled with a very nice Hungarian Rose wine, and standing in front of my trusty iMac.I absolutely LOVE these drawn-stem glasses from the mid 18th, especially if they are as easily identified as this one is. I will use it for a while, then sell it on at (hopefully) a 100% profit...
Got the bug yet?
I'm beginning to understand this addiction of yours Tom. That is really beautiful and I'm sure a pleasure to drink from.
ReplyDeleteYes, J - both. Just think how many of these fragile objects have been smashed in the last 300 years. So long as they stay intact, they never lose their brightness, and are enhanced by a history we can only guess at. Food and drink rots away - even if it is consumed and remembered, but the vessels live on. Look at this beauty - as alive today as it was in 1740. I am ill, but I can think of worse illnesses - so long as keep it under control. Golf is the same, by all accounts, but you do not have trophies like this for every friendly game.
ReplyDeleteHow's your 'Quiss', J? (calm down everyone else, there was no 'm' involved in that question).
So true Tom...golf is a sad illness of which I can speak firsthand. Glass and crystal saved only for those very, very good at it.
ReplyDeleteAQiss is well...still a sleepy newborn, but with great potential, and we parents are the patient type.
I must say I am suprised by these glasses, I expected something much heavier, larger and more ornate. They are quite lovely. Simple and unadorned. Very much what I fancy myself in a glass. But I would never dare wash it.
ReplyDeleteThe one above is quite masculine, Raz - shortish and stubby! Others are more slender and feminine, and both are sometines adorned with engraving. The only decoration on this is that internal tear bubble in the stem. I used and washed it again last night. The important thing is not to plunge them in hot water, and don't use abrasives! Fingers and cold water will do.
ReplyDeleteI shattered some glasses at someones house. I was washing them in hot soapy water and they were a bubble glass. They started popping and cracking and we lost at least 3. It was right after one of them had an "experience" with a ghost in that house. Of course they blamed it on the ghost but it was my hot soapy water.
ReplyDeleteSounds like they needed smashing to me, Raz. What else can you do with soapy water?
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