Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… since the sixteenth century but was a luxury that very few could afford despite the foundation of a glass manufacture in London in 1574. A new luxury in the late seventeenth century, flint glass, a hard, white, high-quality product, became … (1632-1683) imported glass and other products from Venice in the 1660s. In 1673 he set up a glassworks at the Savoy, London, in partnership with Italian glassmakers. He quickly obtained a patent for crystalline glasses containing lead … convivial venues such as taverns and coffeehouses. ‘Fuddling glasses’ were conceived for drinking games. In late Stuart London, some taverns offered to their customers ‘jolly boys’, cups with twisted handles that ‘expressed conviviality and …
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