Why are wine glasses listed as glass bowls?

Because the bowl is how the glass is catalogued. Georgian and Victorian stemware is identified by bowl shape, and 126 titles say wine while 62 say champagne bowls. Bucket, ogee, trumpet, bell, thistle, barrel, ovoid, pan-top and hexagonal all appear as bowl forms in the archive.

What is the most repeated model in this category?

A French opalescent shell-moulded bowl in the Coquilles pattern. It appears in more than a dozen sampled listings, in sizes numbered 1 to 5. That makes it the closest thing the category has to a standard item, against a field of one-offs.

How old are these bowls?

The dated field spans 1750 to 1960. The earliest sampled pieces include an incurved bucket bowl ale glass and a hexagonal jelly glass at c1750, and a cup-top port wine glass pushed back to c1740. At the other end sit a punch bowl with cups and an opalescent centrepiece bowl at 1960. Between the two poles, Victorian material fills the middle.

Are Irish and Scottish pieces represented?

Both, in small numbers. Irish glass runs to 22 titles and shows up as turnover-rim standing bowls, Cork cut serving bowls and canoe bowls on lemon-squeezer bases. Scotland is the smaller seam at 20 titles, almost all mottled Monart and Vasart art glass of the 1920s and 30s from one Perthshire tradition.

Do these come as sets or singles?

Both, and sets are common at the upper end. Pairs appear in 90 titles, and sampled groups run to six, eight, ten, twelve and sixteen matching bowls, sometimes with plates. Singles are the norm lower down: one finger bowl, one sugar bowl, one small salt.

What colours turn up in Victorian glass bowls?

Blue leads with 50 titles, then green at 41, cranberry at 38 and opaque at 37. Amethyst and Bristol colours each account for around 18. Vaseline and uranium glass, yellow-green and fluorescing under UV, recurs on both bowls and wine-glass bowls. Ruby appears too.

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Open glass vessels for the table - finger bowls, fruit, sugar, preserve and punch bowls - sit alongside stemmed drinking glasses catalogued by the shape of their bowls.