Can someone identify this glassware for me?

[bBoy JEe]

As the post says, I have no idea what the name of this type of glassware is... any help is appreciated.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...px-Glass02.jpg

Thanks.

 

[fritzl]

champagne cup

 

[bBoy JEe]

Okay thanks.

 

[Edward Appleby]

I've always heard champagne saucer for those glasses.

 

[Huntsman]

Technically, it's a Champagne coupe -- tradition holds that the first was molded on a a breast of Helen of Troy. They are a miserable type of glass for Champagne, as all the bubbles evaporate faster with the large surface area. Good for serving desserts and such, though.

Regards,
Huntsman

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by Huntsman

Technically, it's a Champagne coupe -- tradition holds that the first was molded on a a breast of Helen of Troy. They are a miserable type of glass for Champagne, as all the bubbles evaporate faster with the large surface area. Good for serving desserts and such, though.

Regards,
Huntsman

I hear Marie antoinette - but same idea. lousy container for champain

 

[Faded501s]

Haven't you guys ever eaten at Denny's? THAT is a custard bowl. It can also be used for pudding...preferably chocolate with a little dollop of whipped cream and cherry on top.

 

[LabelKing]

Those types of champagne glasses were popular in the '20s.

 

[ruben]

For the longest time I thought flutes were the champagne glasses molded from Marie Antoinette's breasts. I just read that coupes were used when they served champagne over ice.

 

[lawyerdad]

They use glasses like that at the Meltin Pot, no?

 

[JetBlast]

For the longest time I thought flutes were the champagne glasses molded from Marie Antoinette's breasts.

JB

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by globetrotter

I hear Marie antoinette - but same idea. lousy container for champain

makes more sense. Does anyone have the tie-breaker? I can't imagine champagne was even produced back then...

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

makes more sense. Does anyone have the tie-breaker? I can't imagine champagne was even produced back then...

Yes, it was:

http://www.champagnemagic.com/history.htm

 

[ruben]

So how would one pronounce "coupe" in the context mentioned above?

 

[Huntsman]

Per Kevin Zraly, the first coupes were supposedly molded with Helen as a model, and were just for wine,. To the Greeks, it seemed a properly sensuous wrinkle embellishment of the experience.

Marie naturally decided to leave her impression upon the coupe, and it then became somewhat, er, wider and shallower on account of differences in the Madames, er, endowments. Hence the current coupe (I pronounce it coop, with a little of the French disdain).

So everyone's right and its a beautiful world.

I do not even want to consider what might have formed the basis for the flute.

Regards,
Huntsman