Sunday, January 01, 2017

Happy New Year!



It's a very happy New Year with this relaxed young lady, painted by Al Moore in 1949. The old fashioned Champagne coupe, which I remember from my younger days but is hardly ever seen now, always seems much more louche than modern day flutes. 

Have a good 2017, everyone and thanks for all your views and comments. Reviews of the year next!

23 comments:

  1. Thank you for all the posts in 2016. Have a great new year, may your weight loss continue !!!

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  2. I much prefer the champagne saucers to the newer flutes, too! Happy New Year.

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  3. And a very Happy New Year to you !
    Greetings

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  4. Happy New Year.
    I look forward to reading more of your thoughts this year.
    Best wishes
    Stu

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  5. Wishing you a very happy New Year and looking forward to catching up at Salute.

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  6. All the very best to you good sir! The question is though can you get more champers in saucer than a flute .. we need to know

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  7. I hope you and your family have a wonderful 2017 and that your dice never fail you

    Miles

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  8. I must be louche then. Best wishes for 2017.
    Regards HGA.

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  9. As I'm sure a gentleman such as yourself is well aware the story goes that that style of champagne glasses are modeled on the shape of Marie Antoinette's breasts.
    *slurp*
    Happy New Year sir!

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    1. Sadly, not true but a good story. She may have had a milk bowl, modelled on her breast for her dairy but the coupe style glass was invented in England in the seventeenth century, where sparkling wine was very popular (the French considered it a low class drink only suitable for prostitutes until Louis XIV developed a taste for it.)

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