THE STOUT STEM
Even when the bulbous or lumpy stem ceased to be the rule, a thick stem—three or four times the thickness of modern wine-glass stems—was the rule, for the reason just given.
EGG-CUP BOWL, KNOPPED STEM (COTTON-WHITE SPIRAL SWELLING OUT)
TALL GOBLET, AIR-SPIRAL AND DOME-FOOT
THE EXTENSIVE FOOT
Similarly, old drinking glasses were always made with very broad “feet” or bases; usually the foot had a larger circumference than the bowl. A semi-drunken hand, setting the vessel down on the table, might leave it rocking for two or three seconds, but the foot was so broad that it could hardly rock over.