[MR] setting a table

[Adriana la Bretonne]

Good afternoon,

When searching for glassware with an appropriate size and silhouette
that would be also budget conscious, Mistress Anna Ridley recommended
these glasses from Ikea to me:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40058065

At $2.99 a piece for the 10 oz, they are some of the best priced
passable approximations of period glassware that I have found that are
not reproductions.  The 5 oz are even more economical at $1.99 a
piece.

-Adriana

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Baroness Adriana la Bretonne (Drea Ewing Callicutt)
Barony of Windmasters' Hill/Kingdom of Atlantia

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Sharon Henderson
<henderson.sharon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morrow your Excellency!
>
> Ikea happens to make some lovely blown-glass-type table goblets, about the
> size of a modern juice glass, that would work perfectly; Northern Atlantia
> is blessed with a HUGE Ikea off 95 in Stierbach (toward fair Sudentorre)
> that carries them, or they can be secured by online courier.  :)  I'm sure
> there are similar emporia in other parts of the fairest kingdom in the Known
> World.
>
> We have documented glass vessels all the way back to at least the Romans,
> and there are period inventories (1520s and earlier) showing that the Tudor
> monarchs both inherited and purchased glassware of several types.  World
> Market stores carry some beautiful green and clear glass goblets of various
> sizes and shapes, many of which mimic period shapes.
>
> I'm at work and don't have access to my home links, but hopefully someone
> with the info more ready to hand could post links to pictures online of
> glass plates, ewers, drinking vessels, and the like?
>
> Also prepping for 12th Night,
> Meli :)
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Countess Rowan scripsit:
>
>> Does anyone know what kind of glassware would be used at a table set
>> for a Tudor feast?
>>
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