29 Apr 2017

PAIR OF ENGLISH “HOCK” GLASSES 1760

GREEN “HOCK” GLASSES

A pair of green English plain-stemmed wine glasses the cup-shaped bowls have hammered verticle flutes. These green glasses were used for hock wine (white Rhine wine).

H: 6 in.

c. 1760

October 1994

Regency #93
Encyclopedia of glass P. 101

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35E GREEN “HOCK” GLASSES