English table glass by Bate Percy H. 1868-

Author:Bate, Percy H., 1868-
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Glassware -- England
Publisher: London, G. Newnes, limited; New York, C. Scribner's sons

ENGLISH TABLE GLASS

grog or toddy—cider, for instance, or the less common perry. But whether the straight-sided rectangular pieces (No. 133, for example) were wholly and solely cider glasses, as has been suggested—made for the first time in A.D. 1763 in support of the popular protest against a duty on this home-made beverage— is to me very doubtful. Any glass which bears engraved on the bowl an apple-tree, or a border of apples and leaves, or a motto distinctly allusive to cider, may be fairly assigned to that favourite west-country tipple, which was so strong that it was taken in small glasses like wine {e.g. Nos. 225 and 226) ; and it is a fact that one or two pieces so inscribed and decorated do belong to this straight-sided rectangular type. But I think this is most likely due to the fact that circa A.D. 1760 this was a fashionable shape (in Mr. Singer's collection are two bearing that date), so that it was really almost inevitable that on some glasses of this form should be recorded the farmer's protest against the obnoxious excise duties on cider and other liquors which roused him to revolt in a.d. 1763.

En passant thttwo-hdindXtd. cup (No. 136), apparently based as to form on contemporary 68

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