Antique English glass from 1820'sh

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Item number: 353348

Description: Height 16 cm.
Antique English drinking glass with nice inlaid white spirals in the foot.

The glass is mouth blown with a large attached foot, to give the glass extra stability.
The stem with an inlaid spiral in white glass tubes. This technique is called zanfirico.


The stem is made by collecting a bundle of bars of white and clear glass and heating it until it becomes a soft plate. This is then fixed to two glass-making rods and extended by pulling it gently, at the same time it was twisted to make the spiral pattern.

Zanfirico, also known as vetro a retorti, is named after the Venetian art dealer Antonio Sanquirico, who in the 1830s called on Murano to resume many of the traditional techniques.

The glass is in really good condition.

Item number: 3402