Wine Glasses

Wine through the ages has been consumed from every kind of vessel imaginable: pottery bowls, bejeweled gold goblets, fine Venetian glass, and ordinary glass containers.

It is known that the ancient Romans drank and served from glass containers and that the Venetians in the sixteenth century perfected a specialized form of glassmaking, but it was in the seventeenth century that the British developed a lead and flint glass that revolutionized the industry. This new glass was further adapted by designs and shapes for different wines and spirits into the eighteenth century.