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Title: Champagne Coupes
Post by: The Glass Staircase on June 28, 2019, 02:19:33 PM

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

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: Anne Tique on June 29, 2019, 06:55:02 PM

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

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: The Glass Staircase on June 29, 2019, 07:06:28 PM

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 :)

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: Anne Tique on June 30, 2019, 04:23:38 AM

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  :)

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: The Glass Staircase on June 30, 2019, 07:36:32 AM

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

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: flying free on July 02, 2019, 02:30:57 PM

What makes you think they are modern?

m

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: glassobsessed on July 02, 2019, 02:59:53 PM

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

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: flying free on July 02, 2019, 03:30:25 PM

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

m

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: glassobsessed on July 02, 2019, 03:40:10 PM

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...

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: flying free on August 13, 2024, 08:16:54 PM

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

Title: Re: Champagne Coupes
Post by: glassobsessed on August 18, 2024, 05:11:32 PM

Yes that was my impression too.