Diamond blue Empoli decanter

Superb carafe in blue empoli glass, diamond cut. With its original cap. In perfect condition, large model of 54 cm in height. The tuscan city of empoli in italy is known as the "city of glass". Less famous than its neighbour murano, empoli is located just a few kilometres from florence, the city of the renaissance. Its history begins in the modern age, with the revolution of wine storage and transport: we move from wooden or terracotta containers, to glass bottles and cylinders. The widespread use of glass containers – more hygienic, lightweight and easily transportable – was made possible by the improvement of glass melting techniques in the most important centres of val d'elsa: it is in montaione, gambassi and empoli that we find most of the workshops of master glassmakers, many of them highly sought after by the court of the grand duke of florence. In the 1950s, empoli's glassmakers competed in creativity and produced containers with original shapes and bright colors that became, in our modern interiors, vases or decorative art pieces in their own right. In perfect condition. 54 X 13 cm. Clean, fast and neat shipping or hand delivery to paris / reims / laon.