Fancy a tipple?

The baluster glasses of the late 17th and early 18th centuries owe their distinctive style to necessity and English invention. A Georgian baluster glass owes it's existence to the slower cooling lead metal (lead crystal or flint if you prefer) developed at the Savoy glass house. The glass was not suited to the production of the earlier Venetian styles with thin and light funnel shaped bowls, although examples do exist.

I was told that this is mid to late 17th c. There is a good chance that it was handled by Sir Robert Boyle himself.