I was surprised at how quickly I was able to identify, and moments later, buy a specific glass that was used extensively in the film, The Taste of Things.
Figuring this was likely a glass design that has been around for a while in France (the film takes place in the the late 19th century), it should be fairly easy to find.
So:
- My first instinct was to screenshot a frame from the film that featured the glass prominently, and I found this quite easily (conducted a search for the film and quickly sifted through stills until I found a suitable one)
- I then tabbed to Google Images, and uploaded a cropped version of the still frame detailing the glass
- After about 3-5 seconds of running an analysis on the image, Google presenting a grid of potential products that fairly accurately represented the glass
- While I couldn’t find the exact one, I landed on what was surely a custom design based on a much earlier variant of La Rochère’s Perigord wine glass — the glassmaker has, after all, been around since 1475
This seems, without a doubt, the closest fit, and I landed on this within minutes of conducting my search. I know this commerce image search tech has been around for several years now, it’s still impressive, and until now, I’ve actually never had the need to use it. But it certainly won’t be the last. Amazon also has a similar image search tool called Amazon Lens, but it’s oddly only available in the Amazon app. Will be curious to see ChatGPT and Perplexity start incorporating this kind of thing into their chat interfaces (Perplexity launched its Shopping capability the other week, though I haven’t used it).