Six Val St Lambert Hollow Stemmed Blue Wine Glasses c.1880

A set of six wine glasses from the late Victorian era, produced by Val St Lambert around 1880. These glasses are in Val St Lambert’s ‘Olivier’ pattern. They have teal-blue-hued bowls decorated with oval or ‘olive’ cuts above clear glass hollow stems, flute-cut from the shoulder to basil knops. Polished pontils to the base of the feet. Date & Origin: Val St Lambert, Belgium, c1880 Period of King Leopold II Historical Context: The era was marked by the rise of the Catholic Gothic Revival in architecture and, in art, by painters focusing on domestic, genre scenes, and portraits of the bourgeoisie.