By Empoli
Located in Valencia, VC
Delightful indeed, these unusual Empoli Glass pair of perfume genie bottles feature a beautiful amber color exterior layer of glass and a very thin white casing. The body of the bottle is very light, in contrast with the very heavy and solid genie style stoppers. Hand-produced in the Tuscany region, Italy, circa the 1950s.
Measurements:
Height 24cm/ 9.5in
Width of the body 7cm/ 2.75in
Weight of both 1.225gr
¨When most people think of Italian glass, they think of the many manufacturers based on the Venetian island of Murano. But there is another area of Italy with a long history of glass production - the town of Empoli, in the Tuscany region, near Florence. There is evidence of glassware being produced in Empoli as far back as the thirteenth century. There are two main types of Empoli glass - "Verde" and "Cased". Verde (Italian for green) glass takes its name from the traditional green colour of Empoli glass, which was a result of the content of local sand used for glass production. Empoli manufacturers that produced Verde glassware include Vetrerie E. Taddei & C., Vetreria Etrusca, Vetreria Toso Bagnoli, CLAVE, and Vetrerie Empolesi. Later, cased glass became popular in Empoli, which consists of brightly coloured glass cased in a layer of clear glass, sometimes also having an internal layer of opaque white "Lattimo" glass. Some Empoli producers of cased glass are STELVIA, Cristalleria Fratelli Betti, Cristalleria Arno, CIVE, and SAVIA. There was, and still are, a large amount of manufacturers in the Empoli area involved in glass production, and it can often be difficult to identify designs by a particular maker, as any labels usually bore the name of importers, or simply read "Made in Italy". Companies that imported glass from Empoli include Alrose, Rossini, Guildcraft, Vimax, Enesco and Hans Geismar...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Empoli Bottles