Wine Collectables.....thsi is PW's fault

[TheEngineer]

PW noted that he picked up a Hittite decanter on his trip and that started me thinking again...i do so little thinking nowadays that I remember when I think......I think..

Anyone here into collecting wine antiquities (not the Jefferson Bottles....)? I started not so long ago when an antique dealer I know in Boston that we buy pieces from started to talk to me about his love for Pinot Noir. He started collecting some very serious pieces (Five figures) and started to show them to me. of course if I can't drink Lafite, I won't buy five figure antiques but I did start picking up lesser pieces.

I have a 2000 yr old wine drinking vessel (the ear cup) called a yushang made ofo ceramic (http://history.cultural-china.com/en/53H2040H5107.html). This shape essentially stayed unchanged for 2000 years. Wonder if Riedel will reproduced one of these in Hand blown cristal... I have several ceramic wine vessels from the Shang dynasty 650 AD. Some drawings showing wine consumption,. etc,..

I'm not likely to decant my next bottle into this but have continued to look into these artifacts as an interest. People WAYYYYY back were interested in wine and they have specifically shaped vessels to hold and consume them. Thought provoking.