Silver goblets are one of the varieties of silverware.
Etiquette experts, as well as owners of retail outlets specializing in the sale of silverware, know very well that these products can decorate any table setting. Therefore, in silverware stores, silver goblets are usually displayed in the most visible place.
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The Cultural Significance of Silver Wine Glasses
The main value of silver wine glasses is their amazing beauty. Hand-made with many decorative elements, the use of laser engraving, gilding, and enamel inserts make silverware items true works of art.
Fans of fine drinks know that their taste can be fully revealed only through the correct selection of vessels. Using glasses made of silver helps to turn ordinary drinking into a kind of ritual.
Drinking water or wine from silver vessels allows you to experience their true taste. These products made of precious metals allow you to preserve the original properties of the drinks poured into them for a longer time, which is due to the bactericidal properties of silver.
Useful properties of silver glasses
These glasses are among the items that can be united under the general name of "table silver". Their choice, made by people in ancient times, is due to the bacteriostatic properties of silver.
Thus, the warriors of the Persian king Cyrus stored water in vessels made of this metal. Alexander the Great also paid tribute to silver, preferring silver cups and other utensils.
Important! The ability of this noble metal to destroy pathogenic microorganisms is due to the saturation of the liquid poured into a silver glass or goblet with its ions.
They are capable of striking more than 260 types of viruses and types of microbes and bacteria. These properties have determined the almost continuous demand for silverware for thousands of years.
Before the discovery of microorganisms, people simply attributed magical properties to this metal. For example, this was believed in Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt, who used silverware to store food and water.
The medieval epidemics of plague or cholera that decimated the population of European countries did not affect the nobility and wealthy people from trading circles, those who ate and drank with silver.
In our country there is a custom of giving a baby a silver spoon when his first tooth comes through.
Today, there is a widespread distribution of products made from this metal, however, even at the moment, only quite wealthy people can afford very expensive silver glasses from a well-known manufacturer.
Types of silver wine glass decoration
The tradition of using silver goblets in table setting dates back to the times of the aristocracy.
The custom of drinking wine or other drinks and serving them to guests in silver vessels equipped with a high stem arose in Europe around the sixteenth century.
Since that time the tradition of decorating such items has been going on:
- original ornaments;
- family engraving;
- blackening;
- enamel inserts;
- with ivory inserts;
- minting;
- gilding.
Nowadays, laser engraving has been added to these traditional methods.
What drinks can you drink from silver glasses
The type and purpose of silver vessels depend on what kind of drinks they are intended for.
Therefore, it is customary to distinguish between glasses and wine glasses, and between silver shot glasses and shot glasses made from the same material.
- Glasses are thin-walled vessels. It is customary to drink various types of wine, cocktails or beer from them. Such silver items are usually used to decorate festive tables at small and large banquets. Silver glasses are often wedding gifts for newlyweds.
- Wine glasses are most often used for drinking non-alcoholic beverages. However, it is also appropriate to drink champagne and wine from them.
- Shot glasses made of silver are traditionally used for drinking strong alcohol or liqueurs.
- Shot glasses look like small glasses or shot glasses. They have no stem and the walls are straight, as they are usually drunk in one gulp.
Silver Goblet Manufacturers Brands
Among domestic manufacturers of glasses and other silverware, the following brands can be distinguished:
- OJSC Krasnoselsky Yuvelirprom;
- Intersilverline company;
- LLC VYUZ “Russian Silver”;
- Argenta;
- Kolchuginsky plant;
- Pavlovsk plant.
Silver items made by craftsmen from the Dagestani village of Kubachi enjoy considerable and well-deserved popularity. There are centuries-old dynasties of craftsmen there, in which sons adopt from their fathers the subtleties of making goblets, wine glasses and other items not only from silver, but also from other precious metals, methods of engraving, blackening, and inlaying them.
