Pair of Edinburgh Crystal ‘Thistle’ Design Large Brandy Glasses No. 200177

This is a pair of high-quality cut and etched lead crystal brandy glasses from the ‘Thistle’ suite produced by Edinburgh Crystal for over 100 years.

Each glass has a capacious balloon-shaped bowl that is etched and engraved below the rim with three thistle and foliage sprigs. Below this is a band of arched panel cuts that sit on a circumferential mitre cut. The lower half of the bowl is cut with a large lattice formed from raised diamonds.

A short, tapering stem connects the bowl to the star-cut foot. The latter is unmarked.

Each glass has a height of approximately 12.9cm, with a diameter across the rim of about 6.1cm and across the foot of about 7.6cm.

Each glass has a liquid capacity (to the brim) of 400ml. This corresponds to the Edinburgh Crystal catalogue’s ‘large brandy glass’ listing, which has product number ‘200177’.

They have an unwrapped weight of 550g.

They are in excellent condition, with no chips or cracks.