Vintage Ship's Merlot Decanter, English Crystal Glass, Wine, Spirit, Mid Century

This is a handsome mid 20th century crystal decanter, with a classic ship’s form and brilliant cut finish, dating to circa 1960. This full-bodied wine or spirit decanter adds eleganc...

This is a vintage crystal wine ewer. An English, cut glass claret or spirit decanter, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Striking example with a brilliance to draw admiring...

This is a vintage crystal wine decanter. An English, cut glass decorative spirit vessel, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Striking form and patterns accentuate this appe...

This is a vintage medium body wine decanter. An English, glass Merlot or Grenache aerator, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960. Of appealing shaft & globe form, with a bulbo...

Elegant Mid-Century Modern vintage crystal decanter with stopper by Orrefors (Swedish, founded 1898), c. 1960's. Engraved signature to base Orrefors HM 2498 - this particular style was by Edvard Hall. Includes original red Orrefors Sweden sticker with logo. "Orrefors HM 2498" etched into base. Measures 11.5" H x 3" W x 3" D. Orrefors Glassworks was founded in 1898 on the same site where ironworks operations had been run since 1726. In the same year that the glassworks was founded, a hot shop was built for making technical, medical and household glass and stemware to make use of waste wood and labour. Glass now replaced the less profitable ironworks operations. In 1913, Consul Johan Ekman from Gothenburg became the new owner of Orrefors Glassworks. He appointed Albert Ahlin as manager of the glassworks and this marked the start of a new era. In 1914, Orrefors started manufacturing crystal products, and as well as cut crystal according to purchased patterns and samples, Orrefors made art glass using the overlay technique with etched decoration. The new management quickly saw that artists were needed in the business, so Simon Gate was employed in 1916 and was joined by Edward Hald a year later. That same year, Gate and Hald made their first tentative attempts at figure engraving. They also experimented with the new innovative graal (grail) glass technique that was developed at Orrefors by the master glassblower Knut Bergqvist. The major successes were achieved a few years later at the Gothenburg Exhibition in 1923, and in particular at the Paris Exhibition in 1925. The thin engraved glass was admired by the surrounding world, and both Orrefors and the artists themselves were awarded the Grand Prix. The successes of Simon Gate and Edward Hald in Paris in 1925 constituted the start of the long Orrefors tradition of creative design closely combined with genuine and innovative craftsmanship. Since then, new designers and skilled glassmakers have continued in the spirit of Gate and Hald. Vicke Lindstrand and Edvin Öhrström with the new glass technique called Ariel in the 1930s. Sven Palmqvist with Kraka and Ravenna in the 1940s. And in the 1950s with Fuga, which, along with Nils Landberg’s slender tulip-shaped glass “Tulpan” and Ingeborg Lundin’s apple-shaped vase “Äpplet”, are now seen as symbols of the renaissance of Swedish design. The 1960s are associated with Gunnar Cyrén’s Pop glass, and in the 1970s, Eva Englund, Olle Alberius, Lars Hellsten and Jan Johansson as well as Cyrén worked at the glassworks. Since the 1980s, designers such as Anne Nilsson, Erika Lagerbielke, Helen Krantz, Matz Borgström, Per B Sundberg, Martti Rytkönen, Lena Bergström, Ingegerd Råman, Malin Lindahl and Efva Attling...

An attractive mid 20th Century Bohemian glass decanter cased in a deep red and engraved with decorative motifs with star cut base and matching stopper ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height:...

Gorgeous gin and whiskey crystal decanters from the 1800s. These magnificent pair were designed for use on ships. The wide bottoms were to keep them stable when the ship lists. They ...

Spectacular and rare chiseled crystal wine decanter from the Beyer Crystal factory in Germany. Very rare shape and quality of the plug. Stamp of the Bey...