the more elegant of those already in exist-ence, presumably bell-shaped and air-stemmed,being pressed into the service, but about 1730special glasses were made, with wide, shallowbowls, of the double-ogee variety and a baluster.They had knopped or double-knopped stems anddomed feet. Sometimes, as… … Eighteenth-Century Glass a narrow cone, the stems exemplifying thevarious patterns of the day—baluster, knopped,double-knopped, air-twisted, opaque-twisted, anddrawn. In the later examples the elongationwas so pronounced that the glasses approxi-mated to the familiar flute shape. In thesethe stem…
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