20 years ago on holiday in Provence I found my first Absinthe glass in a brocante in Fayence. In fact it was a pair (one of which is pictured above)
This started me on my whole mania for these glasses and at this stage I must have about 30 of them.
They tend to come in various shapes and sizes but this shape , my original purchase was always my favourite.

It was the one Monet used in his painting The Absinthe Drinker.

And the Swiss painter Ihly painted the same glass (somewhat the worse for wear) in his painting of the same name.

This is one of my favourite paintings.

But despite scouring Antiques, Brocantes and Vide Greniers for the last twenty years I never succeded in finding one the same shape.
Last year it was decided that, as we now have seven huge boxes of glass stored in the cellar here in Thezan, I should stop collecting any more and now devote my life to giving them away.
I agreed (but made a mental reservation, should I ever be lucky to find one of the original shape )

And so it happened.

About three weeks ago our trudge through the antique fair in Pezenas in pouring rain, was rewarded by a pair of originals.

And, just last week in Cébazan at a Vide Grenier, I spotted another.

None are quite the same size- that is part of their charm.