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Art Deco Italian Crystal Table Centerpiece Completely Smooth
$1,436.08
£1,075.07
€1,200
CA$1,976.95
A$2,161.19
CHF 1,143.37
MX$25,862.14
NOK 14,547.72
SEK 13,316.96
DKK 9,142.52
About the Item
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani
Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Original crystal table centerpiece; the beautiful wavy shape has a unique elegance and refinement; it can be used as a practical champagne holder or as a sophisticated flower vase; the object made and signed by the Maestro, was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1984, and made with the techniques we explained in the description, with particular accuracy and skill the perfect polishing was done. For the shape, the Maestro was inspired by a cup belonging to the Medici family, now preserved in the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Five examples of this piece exist. Measures width cm.38, depth cm.20, height cm.31. For all our shipments we use special packaging materials (wooden crates, polystyrene, etc.) for maximum protection and safety of the objects.
- Dimensions:Height: 12.21 in (31 cm)Width: 14.97 in (38 cm)Depth: 7.88 in (20 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:1984
- Condition:The item is in excellent condition. All items in the entire collection have never been used; it was part of the exhibition.
- Seller Location:Prato, IT
- Reference Number:Seller: MG-791stDibs: LU4632231859982
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