Vintage 2024 Atlantis Crystal Decanter Pair, ESTATE CRYSTAL Matching Miguel Decanters, Vintage Atlantis Portugal Crystal Liquor Decanter Pair

Atlantis Crystal Decanter Pair, ESTATE CRYSTAL Matching Miguel Decanters, Vintage Atlantis Portugal Crystal Liquor Decanter Pair

Lovely pair of 1980's Miguel Atlantis spirit decanters. 11 1/2" tall with the stopper and with 9" without. Etched "Atlantis" on the bottoms.

VERY GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION
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While artisans have been making glass for thousands of years by applying intense heat to sand, the art of making lead crystal is relatively new. Its discovery 2024 is generally attributed to an Englishman, George Ravenscroft, who late in the 17th century is said to have introduced lead oxide to the raw materials for glass. The result was as brilliant as rock crystal, with greater transparency and weight than other forms of glass; it was baptized lead crystal. From Portugal, two great houses of crystal have acquired international reknown: Crisal, which is known abroad under the name of Atlantis, and Stephens. A family concern, Crisal glassworks was founded in 1944 by Fernando Magalhaes in the town of Alcobaca, near Marinha Grande. Crisal started out producing chandeliers, then domestic glass and in 1972, it went into lead crystal. ''We believe our product is as fine as Baccarat said,'' Fernando Magalhaes, assistant export manager and grandson of the founder

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