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Stem glass and goblets
GOBLET ( CALICE )
Glass with a conic shape. It rises from a stem which can be
either long and short. The word calice identifies each glass
with a foot. Shape, dimension and style can be various and,
above all regarding English wine glasses, they determine exactly
the period of production.
Goblets can be plain or decorated with engravings, carved,
enamelled, gilt etc.
KINDS and SHAPES
Campana (bell):
it has the shape of a bell turn upside down, sometimes with a
full bottom or slightly flared.
Cardo (thistle):
the shape that recalls that of the thistle can be just a hint,
or emphasized with the lower part like a bowl and the upper one
like a funnel.
Conico (conical):
it can end in a tip or in a rounded bottom and the upper part is
narrower than the one in the cardo goblet.
Coppa (cup):
it varies from the classic wine goblet with a round container
and large mouth, to the champagne cup, large and not very deep.
Many of the goblets, meant to serve analcoholic drinks and
desserts, have a cup-shaped mouth.
Esagonale (hexagonal):
the rounded bottom rises making an hexagon, sometimes an
octagon.
Fiore (flower):
the u-shaped goblets gets larger at the mouth making a sort of a
flower corolla.
Flute:
very thin and tall goblet with the shape of a trumpet or of a
flute.
Imbuto :
it has a very open shape,with a large mouth: it ends in a tip.
Ovoidale:
it has a slightly rounded shape, it gets narrower towards the
mouth.
Secchiello:
it has a cylindric shape with a flat bottom. It can be slightly
flared, with a light bottleneck in the middle.
Sfaccettato:
the inside is round, while the outside presents lots of facets:
it exists only in heavy crystal goblets. In the Christian
liturgy the goblet is the vase that contains the consecrated
wine for the Mass.
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