Drinking Vessels

Before the development of glass-making enabled the production of glasses (the most common modern wine drinking vessels), a wide variety of drinking vessels were used for wine. Pottery cups were commonplace, and goblets made of a variety of metals, but even earlier than this wine was sucked through a reed, either from a bowl such as a crater, or possibly from a hollowed-out gourd or similar vessel provided by Nature. See Ancient egypt, india, and armenia.

1. Bickerton, L.M., 18th Century Drinking Glasses, An Illustrated History (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1987).
2. Butler, R., Great British Wine Accessories 1550–1900 (Sudbury, Suffolk, 2009).
3. Seddon, G. B., The Jacobites and their Drinking Glasses (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995).