Decanters 1760-1930

For centuries wine has been served at table out of expensive and often elaborate serving vessels. The unrivalled transparency of lead crystal, invented in late-seventeenth-century England, led to glass, rather than silver or ceramics, increasingly being used as the favoured material. Although initially influenced by the contemporary wine bottle, from the middle of the eighteenth century the design of decanters became ever more subject to changing fashions. This book traces the developments and changing styles of these most elegant and useful pieces of glass tableware from the mid Georgian period to the Art Deco period of the 1930s. The many illustrations show the wide variety of decanters still available outside museum and private collections.

Author: David Leigh
Publisher: Shire
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers, 6 x 9 inches tall, Illustrated with Colour and B&W photos and artworks throughout.