Custard Glass
1750-1775 (made)
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Object Type
Squat jelly or custard glasses of this type were used in sets, mainly to adorn the two or three graduated salvers (trays or 'waiters') of a fashionable pyramid of desserts. They are sometimes listed in 18th-century retailers' bills as 'monteiths'. These are not to be confused with the much larger bowl of the same name with slotted rim used for rinsing wine glasses, which had been invented in the 1680s (they were supposedly named after a 'fantastical Scot' called Monteith whose cloak had a scalloped bottom edge).
Retailers & Traders
By the second half of the 18th century, the number of 'chinamen' (retailers of porcelain, pottery and glass) had greatly increased to cater for fashionable new table settings. Many types of dessert glasses are shown in their trade cards. They generally fall into the categories of tall or squat, and cut or mould-blown.
Design & Designing
Although this particular mould-blown example would have been much cheaper than cut glass, it echoes the styles of cut glass with its lobed foot and diamond-mesh pattern.
Squat jelly or custard glasses of this type were used in sets, mainly to adorn the two or three graduated salvers (trays or 'waiters') of a fashionable pyramid of desserts. They are sometimes listed in 18th-century retailers' bills as 'monteiths'. These are not to be confused with the much larger bowl of the same name with slotted rim used for rinsing wine glasses, which had been invented in the 1680s (they were supposedly named after a 'fantastical Scot' called Monteith whose cloak had a scalloped bottom edge).
Retailers & Traders
By the second half of the 18th century, the number of 'chinamen' (retailers of porcelain, pottery and glass) had greatly increased to cater for fashionable new table settings. Many types of dessert glasses are shown in their trade cards. They generally fall into the categories of tall or squat, and cut or mould-blown.
Design & Designing
Although this particular mould-blown example would have been much cheaper than cut glass, it echoes the styles of cut glass with its lobed foot and diamond-mesh pattern.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Clear glass, with mould-blown mesh pattern |
| Brief description | Jelly glass ('monteith'), England, 1750-1800 |
| Physical description | Foot: lobed; Bowl: honeycomb-moulded double-ogee |
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| Credit line | Given by Francis Buckley, Esq. |
| Object history | Made in England |
| Summary | Object Type Squat jelly or custard glasses of this type were used in sets, mainly to adorn the two or three graduated salvers (trays or 'waiters') of a fashionable pyramid of desserts. They are sometimes listed in 18th-century retailers' bills as 'monteiths'. These are not to be confused with the much larger bowl of the same name with slotted rim used for rinsing wine glasses, which had been invented in the 1680s (they were supposedly named after a 'fantastical Scot' called Monteith whose cloak had a scalloped bottom edge). Retailers & Traders By the second half of the 18th century, the number of 'chinamen' (retailers of porcelain, pottery and glass) had greatly increased to cater for fashionable new table settings. Many types of dessert glasses are shown in their trade cards. They generally fall into the categories of tall or squat, and cut or mould-blown. Design & Designing Although this particular mould-blown example would have been much cheaper than cut glass, it echoes the styles of cut glass with its lobed foot and diamond-mesh pattern. |
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| Accession number | C.4-1911 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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