Topic: Champagne Coupes

[The Glass Staircase]

Hi all,

Probably a long shot but does anyone recognise these modern air twist stem champagne coupes? The bowls are tiny, you'd struggle to get a mouthful from one full. They measure 11.5 cm high / 5.2 cm diameter bowl / 4.9 cm diameter foot

Thanks for looking!

Adam

[Anne Tique]

With these measurements they might be liqueurs glaces i think, perhaps a little small for champagne and that isn't anything personal 
Nice quality though.

[The Glass Staircase]

Yeah you're probably right as the bowls are tiny but they're wide and shallow like champagne glasses so that's why I described them as that

[Anne Tique]

The way people enjoy a drink nowadays is different from the way it was used to be done, as I'm sure you can imagine. Certain liqueurs were drunk pure and without ice. The glass could be chilled by swirling an ice cube in it, a process called 'frapper' [frappay].   
In french these small glasses, shallow or not,  for liqueurs are called 'verre à gouttes'. I think i might have mentioned this before elsewhere. A 'drop' glass, as the quantity per glass is so small. The expression still exists today when people  offer eachother a drink by asking 'une petite goutte?'.

I'm not suggesting they are of french manufacture, only just highlighting the fact that they are liqueur glasses which you understood anyway 

[The Glass Staircase]

Ok thanks for that I'm going to see if using the terms you mentioned makes searching for a possible maker easier.

Thank you!

Adam

[flying free]

What makes you think they are modern?

m

[glassobsessed]

Reminds me of this glass - the very fine air twist stems anyway. I found a few similar online when searching but attributions seemed at best to me to be wishful thinking (St Louis/Moser etc).

My impression was modern too.

John

[flying free]

Is that a Saint Louis glass John? Do you know which range?

m

[glassobsessed]

Not as far as I know m, my cursory search turned up nothing conclusive, needed to give it some sort of file name at the time...

[flying free]

I think contenders could be either Theresienthal or Rheinische Glashutten for John's glass.  I think the latter is possible?