Complete Bayel Crystal Service Venus And Bacchus

Complete set of a Cristallerie de Bayel glass service including 6 champagne glasses height 14.50cm and drinking diameter 9.50 cm, 6 water glasses height 18cm and drinking diameter 6.50cm, 6 wine glasses height 16.50cm and drinking diameter 7cm, 6 digestive glasses height 15 cm and drinking diameter 5.5cm for a total of 24 glasses all in perfect condition, no cracks or chips. This service is the signature of the Haviland-Daum house which took over the Cristallerie from the 1990s. I have another identical service for sale with 6 champagne flutes in place of the 6 glasses. In 1663, by order of his majesty Louis of their life. Among them Jean-Baptiste Mazzolaï or Mazzola (who Frenchified his name to Mazzolay) and his collaborators took over a glassmaking workshop in Faubourg St Antoine in Paris. Louis XIV was enthusiastic about the work of the glass art of Jean-Baptiste Mazzolay through the mirrors of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, ennobled him and gave him his letters patent in 1666. After a visit to Rizaucourt, Jean-Baptiste Mazzolay lit the first fixed furnace of the Royal Manufacture in crystals in Bayel under the aegis of the Clairvaux Abbey. The Royal Manufacture of Bayel was the official supplier to the court until 1727. Different successors took over the management of this Manufacture, the Valéry families 1771-1852. Marquot 1854-1987. Since 1987 the French crystal company, the Borgesesia holding, the heirs Martini and Rossi and the last the financier Saint Germain (Haviland and Daum holding). The factory closes on May 13, 2016.