Wine Glass, 1765-1795

In the early 18th century, glassmakers in England and Ireland created exquisite translucent cut glassware known as Anglo-Irish glass. Beginning in the 1780s, Anglo-Irish glassmakers found a ready market in America -- now independent from Britain. Americans loved the dazzling interplay of candlelight and glass in their homes, which showed that Americans could attain interiors as fashionable as those in London.