c. 1700-1750
Toasting Glass
Artist/maker unknownIn the mid-eighteenth century, glassmakers often made the stems of toasting glasses thin enough to be easily snapped in a dramatic gesture after the delivery of a toast. As a result of this practice, very few toasting glasses of the period have survived.
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