A Pair Georgian Opaque Twist Stem Wine Glasses c1760

Description

Heading : A pair of opaque twist wine glasses
Period : George II-George III
Date : c1760
Origin : England
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Ogee
Stem : A pair of four ply spiral bands outside a pair of corkscrew threads
Foot : Conical
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead
Size :   13cms tall with a 4cm bowl and a 7.4cm foot
Condition : Very good
Restoration : None
Weight : 225g

Nowadays this capacity of bowl would be used for sherry. madeira or other fortified wine glasses. The capacity of th bowl is equivalent to a cordial. These may well have been for fortified wines or cordials