This is one of two of these lovely hand-blown glass decanter flasks / chemist carboys that I have in my store at the moment. I have already sold a red one. So I now have this very tall amber one - and a slightly shorter green one.
This stunning bottle vase was made in the 1960s by Empoli Glass, Italy. It is a clear golden amber-coloured glass. The sides of the genie vase are smooth with no decorative patterns or motifs. It is certainly a very attractive minimalistic piece of vintage glass.
Empoli is a region in the west of Italy, southwest of Florence in the province of Tuscany. Empoli has been producing and exporting glass since the 14th century.
For centuries, green glass was a trademark colour of Empoli. The Empoli green, known as “Empoli Verde" was created from the iron that occurred locally in the sands of the Empoli region. Pieces of Empoli glass are not always marked as such - and in the past might have had a Made in Italy sticker or paper label but this is now often missing.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Empoli glass manufacturers moved away from their traditional green glassware, and began producing modern more brightly coloured glass and pieces of vibrant cased glass covered in a thick layer of clear glass,
My Genie Bottle vase is a nice simple and stylish shape - with a 5 1/2 inches diameter at the base - which tapers gently to the collared neck at the top. The stopper is a lovely tapered flame shape and sits in the neck of the bottle - it has been hand-blown and is original to the base.
There are no damages to my Genie bottle - and it certainly looks fabulous on display in a mid-century modern interior. My price is a fair one for an example of this height.
The overall height (including the stopper) is 27 inches. The height of the main bottle section is 19 3/4 inches. The stopper measures 8 3/4 inches.
My bottle is 1.2 kg unpacked.
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