{"id":5486,"date":"2020-06-15T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2020-07-06T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:44:26","slug":"cristallerie-royale-de-saint-louis-water-goblet-in-the-manon-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5486","title":{"rendered":"Cristallerie royale de Saint Louis Water Goblet in the Manon Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?attachment_id=5484\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5484\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5484\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112903-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112903-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112903-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112903-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112903-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112903-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a>I have owned these two stems for a long time.\u00a0 Not being able to identify them myself I finally decided to ask for help.\u00a0 I submitted the photos to Replacements.com&#8217;s identification service (which is great!).\u00a0 I received the information that the pieces were produced by Saint-Louis of France.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements&#8217; staff did not provide the line name or any information about an age so I decided to visit the Saint Louis website to see if there was any information.\u00a0 I saw that there was a link to a Saint Louis Museum (where I must visit some day) and wondered if staff would provide an ID and additional information.<\/p>\n<p>I was put in touch with a very nice woman who did facilitate the search and was advised that the line name is &#8216;Manon&#8217; and that Manon was introduced in 1924 and in production until the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Currently part of the Hermes group, Saint Louis has been in operation for a long time.\u00a0 here&#8217;s some information from their webiste:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Born in 1586, the M\u00fcntzthal glassworks become \u00ab Verrerie royale \u00bb (Royal Glassworks) in 1767 through Louis XV\u2019s royal seal of approval.<a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?attachment_id=5485\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5485\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112927-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112927-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112927-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112927-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112927-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200605_112927-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italy and Bohemia were already producing crystalline, but it was the Englishman George Ravenscroft who perfected the technique for making genuine crystal. In 1781, experts at Saint-Louis solved the mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1829, renamed \u00ab Cristallerie royale de Saint-Louis \u00bb, the manufacture is exclusively devoted to the production of crystal-glass items.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great to have help to identify this lovely stem.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5486\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have owned these two stems for a long time.\u00a0 Not being able to identify them myself I finally decided &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5486\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[190,477,243,662],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saint-louis","tag-etched-glass","tag-french-glass","tag-goblets","tag-manon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}