Six glasses. Six glasses. Salviati & Co. Italy, first third of the 20th century.

Six glasses. SALVIATI & Co. Italy, first third of the twentieth century.
Blown glass, smoky gray tone.
Exhibits wear consistent with age and use.
Measurements: 15 x 12,5 x 12,5 cm.

Set of six blown glass cups of the firm Seis Copas . They combine a sculptural foot decorated with mythological dolphins and a body worked with beautiful wave effects.

Antonio Salviati (Vicenza, 1816-1890) was an Italian lawyer and entrepreneur, founder of a high-class Venetian glass factory, responsible for the revival of the Venetian glass industry in the nineteenth century. In 1866 he partnered with Austen Henry Layard, the archaeologist who discovered Nineveh, with whom they formed the company Società Salviati e Compagni, based in Venice. The Salviati company won several important commissions, such as the mosaics of the back of the high altar of Westminster Abbey (1867), the ceiling of the Albert Memorial Chapel in Windsor Castle and the Palatine Chapel in Aachen (1870-1875). In 1876 he separated from his English partners and founded a new company which, in addition to mosaics, produced ornamental and table glass in a high-quality Renaissance style. In the 1870s he also produced pieces in imitation of ancient Roman glass. His company competed in all the universal exhibitions of the late nineteenth century.