The Glassware category includes glassware for table settings and drinks – from elegant wine and champagne glasses to robust everyday glasses and speciality glasses such as whiskey glasses, shot glasses and decanters. Here you can find complete glassware sets, but also individual pieces that attract both collectors and those who want to complement or create a unique table setting. Perhaps you are looking for your own glass tea set? Or glass plates for an already started collection?
The range extends from hand-blown and cut antique glass to modern design classics from Swedish glassworks such as Orrefors, Kosta Boda, Reijmyre, Åfors and Skruf. Among the most desirable models are series such as Intermezzo, Nobel, Selma, Street and Carat, often designed by names such as Gunnar Cyrén, Erika Lagerbielke, Bertil Vallien and Ingeborg Lundin. Older glasses with etched decoration, coloured details or period design also occur.
British glassworks are also well represented, including Whitefriars, Stuart and Sons, Thomas Webb, Dartington and Waterford, known for their fine craftsmanship and refined designs. Notable designers such as Rowland Ward, Jasper Conran, Miroslav Havel and John Luxton have contributed to the enduring legacy of British glassware, from both traditional and contemporary perspectives.
Georgian drinking glasses remain particularly popular in the UK. These 18th-century pieces, such as wine and cordial glasses with air twist, opaque twist or colour twist stems, are highly collectible. Items such as Jacobite and Masonic glasses, often etched with symbolic decoration, and dram glasses with a firing foot, add a sense of history and ritual to any collection.
Among Auctionet’s past auctions, you will find both complete glass tableware and individual glasses that bear history, craftsmanship and designer signatures – everything from antique glass to modern classics.