Episode's glasses collection holds six silver tumblers and drinking glasses for the table. Four are short tumblers for water and cold drinks, one is a handled cup made for tea and coffee, and one is a stemmed flute. All six are single silver plated glasses rather than boxed pairs, and the range runs from around ₹1,845 to ₹4,140. What a glass costs follows its design and its making rather than the gram weight of the metal.

Who It Is Best Suited For

A silver tumbler has long been given at an Indian wedding, and it is among the pieces put aside into a trousseau. Each piece here is priced on its own, so a silver water glass can be bought one at a time, in pairs, or in the number a full table needs. Where the glass is the gift itself, the number follows the list of recipients rather than the table: an anniversary gift, a glass for Father's Day, a piece chosen for her or for him, or a corporate order running one design across a headcount.

Which Glass to Choose

Five of the six stand at eleven centimetres or under, and the stemmed flute is twenty-four. Four of them were drawn with a matching jug and can be ordered to sit with it, one of those jugs arriving with four glasses of its own. A glass from this collection does not sit in a design line, and the tumblers that run across the katori, the platter and the cutlery are a separate group of five.

What Silver Adds to a Drinking Glass

A water glass in an Indian home is usually steel or glass. Steel in the common grades reacts with what is poured into it and leaves a metallic taste in water, sharpest with anything acidic, and the steel trade's answer is to line the inside so the drink never touches the metal at all. Silver needs no lining, because it does not react with food or drink, carries no taste of its own, and holds no odour from spice or lemon. Inside a silver drinking glass here the wall is left as bare silver. These pieces are made with a genuine inner and outer wall, so the tarnish-resistant coat goes on the outside and the surface the drink sits against stays uncoated. The coat is applied at Episode's own plating and lacquering plant. Silver also conducts heat better than any other metal, so a glass takes the temperature of what is in it and goes cold in the hand with a cold drink. Where a steel or glass tumbler is eventually replaced, a silver one holds its material value and is handed on.

Care and Delivery

The outside of each glass carries Episode's tarnish-resistant coat and is cleaned with a soft moist cloth. Silver polish and any abrasive strip that coat and should never touch it, and none of these glasses go into a dishwasher. The inside is bare silver and takes no harm from lemon or from anything else served in it. Each glass ships free across India in a gift box finished with a ribbon.

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