Broughton Ice Bucket

Clear tumbler with a band of fine vertical lines, just around the ankles.

This lead crystal ice bucket is by Ralph Lauren. An ice bucket keeps ice at hand for drinks, and the form has been a fixture of home entertaining for well over a century. Short, wide, straight-sided drinking vessel in clear glassy tone with a faint grey cast. A narrow band of closely cut vertical grooves rings the lower third, above a thick, plain base. It is 6 inches high and 6 in diameter.

Quietly sparkling at the bottom, like a good joke.