Tea glass in the characteristic cylindrical shape, here thicker-walled and with a higher capacity than usual. The wide handle makes the glass easy to hold - you won't burn your fingers.

Borosilicate glass - originally a special glass for the optical and chemical industries, developed in 1891 in the glassworks of Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott in Jena, Thuringia - went on an unprecedented triumphal march around the world. The designers at the nearby Bauhaus in Weimar were fascinated by the idea of laboratory glass in the kitchen. They gave the new material its contemporary form and found new uses for it.