Vari produttori - Drinking set (66) - Crystal

Set of 66 crystal glasses from various brands consisting of: photo 3 – 6 flûte goblets, height 20 x 5 cm, and 4 flûte goblets, height 23 x 5.3 cm, in transparent hand-cut crystal. The mark is acid-etched on the underside of the base of the Italian manufacturer: Rocco Bormioli. The Bormioli family began mastering the technical foundations of glassmaking around the year 1000, when, in the Ligurian village of Altare, they founded one of Europe’s most important master glassworker communities. The relationship between the Bormioli family, the art of glass, and the city of Parma began in 1854, when the brothers Domenico, Rocco and Carlo Bormioli bought the “Royal Factory of Majolica and Glass” on Strada Farnese. Both entrepreneurs, Bormioli Rocco was founded in Parma in 1897 and died in 1974; Pier Luigi was born in Parma in 1929 and died in Milan in 1991. Rocco, the nephew and namesake of the founder, led the family business and gave it a historic turn: traditional glassworking (handmade and blown) was gradually converted into fully automated processes. A Knight of Labor, in the sixties he effectively handed the reins to his son Pier Luigi, who took over as general manager in 1966 and then as president in 1974, transforming the Bormioli group into one of Europe’s leading glass industries. He was the first Parma entrepreneur to employ staff with disabilities and some discharged from the Colorno psychiatric hospital. Upon his death, the group’s presidency passed to the eldest son Rocco, who worked alongside the three brothers and the three Tirelli cousins (sons of Pier Luigi’s sister Giuseppina Bormioli). Photo 5 – 4 flûte goblets, French producer Luminarc, Millésimes collection. Founded in Arques in 1948, Luminarc is today one of the world’s leading tableware brands. It spreads its French style beyond borders to almost 160 countries, with 400 million glass articles sold every year. Each day, Luminarc goes to conquer the five continents to offer consumers products whose shapes, capacity, as well as colors and decorations correspond to local customs. Photo 7 – 4 water goblets, height 15.9 x diameter 6.6 cm, Bohemian crystal from the 1980s, engraved/carved with floral/geometric motifs. Photo 9 – 4 flûte goblets, height 17.9 x diameter 6.7 cm, Mantegna model by Luigi Bormioli. Description: Clear, simple foot in a V shape, textured. Condition: Broken. Current: 2001–2002. Photo 11 – 4 martini glasses, Luminarc, France, 1980s. Size: height 15.9 x diameter 9.5 cm. Photo 13 – flute goblet, height 16.9 x diameter 5.9 cm, St Louis, Caton model. Description: Clear bowl with panel-cut, stem in a pressed disk, no refinements. Condition: Active. Current: 1877. Photo 14 – 2 champagne coupes produced in Empoli in the 1930s, Art Deco, height 11.5 x diameter 10.5 cm. Photo 16 – 2 long drink glasses, height 15.1 x diameter 7 cm, Harcourt-Versailles (cut) model by Baccarat. Description: Panel-cut design on the bowl, multi-edged foot. Condition: Active. Current: 1841. Unmarked. Photo 18 – 4 goblets with cobalt blue stems and incised decoration along the upper rim, height 12 x diameter 7.7 cm, Luminarc, France, 1980s. Photo 20 – 4 water glasses, height 10 x 7.1 cm, made in Empoli, 1980s. Photo 22 – 4 port wine goblets, height 12.9 x diameter 5.6 cm, made in Empoli, 1980s. Description: Cross-cut pattern on the bowl. Condition: Broken. Photo 24 – 2 glasses with handles, height 10 x diameter 7.7 cm. Refined espresso coffee set. Each cup is handmade in frosted glass, with an elegant and structured form, enhanced by a delicate translucent hue that echoes the color palette characterizing this set, produced in Turkey in the 1970s. Photo 26 – 2 port wine goblets, height 11.4 x diameter 5.9 cm. 19th-century English heavy colorless mouth-blown glass goblets, hand worked. Toast-master or innkeeper glasses used to prevent the toastmaster from getting drunk. They contain a lot of glass and very little liquid. A measuring line on this type of glass is relatively rare. Characteristics: Faceted lower bowl with a pressed-knob stem and a circular foot. Made in England, around 1820. George IV period. Photo 28 – 5 port wine goblets, height 10.7 x diameter 4.9 cm, made in France in the first decade of the 20th century. Engraved in the cup with a button stem. Photo 30 – wine goblet, height 12 x diameter 8.9 cm, signed Daum, France, 1970s. Description: Clean-cut bowl and foot, no refinements. Condition: Broken. Photo 31 – 3 port wine goblets, height 11.3 x diameter 5.6 cm, mouth-blown crystal, gondola shape, Mirabeau motif by Baccarat, with flat-cut ribs and baluster feet and double balusters. Being handmade and mouth-blown, dimensions may vary slightly. French goblets from the 19th century, about 1880. Unmarked because produced before 1936. Photo 29 – 5 liqueur cups, height 7.4 x 6.3 cm, made in England in the 19th century (rare). Photo 35 – 5 small cordial glasses with long stems, height 8.2 x diameter 4 cm. Evokes an era when aperitifs had different rituals. Vermouth and bitters were smooth, or with little ice, the undisputed protagonists. Cocktails? Shorter than today, because ice was a luxury. Doses were smaller… perhaps to be enjoyed twice. Photo 37 – 4 liqueur glasses, height 6.4 x diameter 6.2 cm, made in England in the 19th century (rare).