Schneider ice bucket in Paris – Mid-twentieth

2603 - signed "schneider a paris", this blown crystal ice bucket in good condition. No cracks or splinters. Micro-scratches of normal use attesting to its age. Thick crystal with bubbled handles. Can quite resume service, or even serve as a small vase. Height 131 mm X 169 mm with handles. Weight 1880 g. Neat and tracked shipment. For information, this small glassworks bought by the schneider brothers (ernest and charles) in 1911 in épinay-sur-seine (seine-saint-denis - france) will become the most important glassworks of the years 1926-1930 and will be rebuilt in 1949 on a new site. The sons (charles junior and robert-henri) will succeed at the helm and the sign of "glassworks" in "crystals" schneider. Destroyed by an explosion in 1957, the activity will restart in 1962 on a new place (loris in the loiret) and will close definitively in 1981.

Ref. : 976EK6Z6