The Wine Glass [SEP] collection
The Wine Glass
The Wine Glass (also The Glass of Wine or Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine, ) is a 1660 painting by Johannes Vermeer now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It portrays a seated woman and a standing man drinking in an interior setting. The work contains the conventions of genre painting of the Delft School developed by Pieter de Hooch in the late 1650s. It contains figures situated in a brightly lit and spacious interior, while its architectural space is highly defined. The figures are set in the middle ground
O” Series. Riedel was inspired to create the series while pressed for cabinet space while living in a New York City apartment. His intent was to design variety-specific wine glasses that were space efficient and stackable. The “O” Series has become Riedel Crystal’s most successful new collection in the company’s history. Today, the “O” collection has grown to include seventeen glass designs including six variety-specific wine glass shapes, sparkling wine, spirits, water, Coca-Cola, and martini cocktails.