Nephrite green hyacinth glass

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Item number: 422679

Description: Height 20.5 cm.

The color is difficult to show in the picture - but in sunlight it is nephrite green, as opposed to the slightly gray shade it has in the pictures.
Hyacinth glass is a longtime tradition, originally from France.
Queen Marie Antoinette filled Versailles with fragrant flower bulbs, hyacinths in glass vases made for it, with space for the bulb at the top, so that it did not touch the water and thereby got spoiled.

This model was manufactured at Fyens Glasværk from 1890 until 1930 in a lot of different colors. Similar models have been made at Holmegaard and Aalborg Glasswork.

Item number: 6317