Engraved Georgian Champagne Glass c1740

Description

Heading : An engraved champagne glass
Period : George II
Date : c1740
Origin : England
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Bell shaped. engraved with swags and tassels
Stem : Eight sided moulded pedestal with diamond shoulders
Foot : Domed and Folded
Pontil : Snapped
Glass Type : Lead
Size :   15.5 cms
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight : 315

According to one former colleague if you can drink from a glass then its not a sweetmeat. You can drink from a vase of you wish and they are not sweetmeats either. Logic. common sense and as we have recently discovered morality and the law are all too often dismissed and ignored when some are faced with the temptations of mammon.

I have always preferred a more logical approach to the sweetmeat / champagne debate when there is any doubt. Is it possible to lift a peanut from the bottom of the glass with fore finger and thumb. I know that we have increased in size over the last two centuries but when a slightly built chap of five feet eight inches cannot perform this simple task then a glass with this lipped shape falls into the champagne category. There is little to evidence that spoons were used to remove the contents from a sweetmeat. nothing pictorial and little written and surely this would be evidenced by more scratch marks within the bowl of a sweetmeat glass were this the case.