10 Blown Glass Bottles Grape Chamber Thomery Moissac France

Lot of 10 blown glass bottles from a 19th century grape chamber Thomery MoissacLot of 10 blown glass bottles from the 19th century from Moissac Tarn et Garonne.Height 5.11 in ø 1.57 in and 1.96 inThese adorable bottles were used to keep the chasselas:The inventor: Baptiste-rose Charmeux.1848: Baptiste Larpenteur forgets for several months clusters of Chasselas, the branches of which he has soaked in a cup filled with water.He finds them, in February, as fresh as when they were picked.1849: Baptiste-Rose Charmeux and Georges Valleaux. implement this discovery and have the first zinc devices manufactured for the conservation of fresh stalk grapes. 1850: To obviate the fragility of these devices, Rose Charmeux had terracotta devices manufactured on the same principle. But these are heavy and fragile.1852: Rose Charmeux has bottles made of varnished stoneware which he places on wooden supports.1865: Rose Charmeux replaces sandstone bottles with glass bottles.1867: Wine growers adopt the new process and gradually replace their zinc tubes with glass bottles.1877: Believing that the process is perfected, Rose Charmeux has it patented. Pons (michel), Thomery wine heritage, Thomery, 20.