Wine Glass (1740–50): Art, History and Details

Wine Glass (1740–50) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

While most of the vessels in this display were made for diverse alcoholic beverages, this modest English glass, its stem twisted with air bubbles, was used exclusively for wine. Glassmaking in England was largely contained to domestic objects, and the many glasses for wine that still exist from the 1700s suggest the growing popularity of wine among Britain’s upper-middle class.

Object facts

• Title: Wine Glass
• Date: 1740–50
• Culture: England, 18th century
• Type: Glass
• Technique: glass
• Dimensions: Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); Overall: 18 x 8 cm (7 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1940.1082

Collection credit

Gift of Dr. Clara K. Clendon and Mrs. Ellen Clendon Cowles, in memory of Benjamin Clendon, their father

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