Champagne glass modelled on the breast of Madame de Pompadour, chief-mistress of King Louis XV of France, but the glass was designed in England over a century earlier especially for sparkling wine and champagne in 1663. The coupe was fashionable in France from its introduction in the 1700s until the 1970s, and in the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s. Champagne is also served in a tulip glass. The white wine tulip is distinguishable from the champagne flute by its wider flared body and mouth. Some oenophiles prefer the tulip glass, as it permits the drinker to get more of
Cathedral glass which the texture of the glass is treated, with the color, as a significant design element. Cathedral glass Cathedral glass is the name given commercially to monochromatic sheet glass. It is thin by comparison with "slab glass", may be coloured, and is textured on one side. The name draws from the fact that windows of "stained glass" were a feature of medieval European cathedrals from the 10th century onwards. The term "cathedral glass" is sometimes applied erroneously to the windows of cathedrals as an alternative to the term "stained glass". "Stained glass" is the material and the art form of