Album : verres a vin du Rhin (Roemers), verres monstres (dits pokale) : 1905 / Cristalleries du Val St. Lambert, Belgique
This 1905 album from the Cristalleries du Val-Saint-Lambert in Belgium is a trade catalogue of Rhine wine glasses (roemers) and tall pokal-style goblets, issued for buyers of cut crystal tableware. The four plates show rows of stemmed glasses on black ground, each with a different engraved or cut bowl pattern such as fans, stars, grapes, fleur-de-lis and vertical fluting. A designer could take from them a range of bowl and stem silhouettes and surface decoration motifs that adapt well to etched, cut or line-drawn glassware.
