Georgian Regency Facet Cut Glass Wine Rinser Bowls Circa 1820 Set of Six

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If you are looking for a set of six wine rinsers in perfect condition this classic Regency set is for … Read more If you are looking for a set of six wine rinsers in perfect condition this classic Regency set is for you.. Wine rinsers were used on the formal table for washing wine glasses between meal courses. When a new wine was bought to the table, the glasses would be placed in the rinser to flush the previous wine from the glass. The lip at opposing sides are intended to hold the stem of a wine glass.
The body of this set is of a large scale and features a hexadecagon cut bottom terminating into ball cut oval facets at the top. In mathematics, a hexadecagon is a sixteen-sided polygon. A regular hexadecagon is when all angles are equal and all sides are congruent. See less