Antique Set 3 Handblown Martini Glasses Animals Bimini Werkstätte Austria 1925

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A very whimsical set of 3 antique handblown Martini glasses featuring a Giraffe, Zebra, and Gazelle, Bimini Werkstätte, Vienna, circa … Read more A very whimsical set of 3 antique handblown Martini glasses featuring a Giraffe, Zebra, and Gazelle, Bimini Werkstätte, Vienna, circa 1925.

A very playful set of martini glasses by the Bimini glassworks in Vienna. The glasses are handblown, the bowls are internally decorfated with red spiral glass canes, below is a bubble, and each bubble has a small colorful animal inside. Below is a second enlongated bubble decorated with raised prunts, each glass is raised on a reverse tapered stem terminating to the flared circular foot.
All of the glasses are in excellent condition.

Bimini glass was created in Vienna in 1923 by Fritz Lampl, with designs by Lampl and his brother-in-law Joseph Berger. The company produced decorative, lightweight glass with vibrant swirling colors and nature-inspired motifs, but was forced to close in 1937 due to Nazi persecution against its Jewish founders. Lampl, his wife Hilde, and other family members fled to London, where they re-established their work under the name Orplid glass, though their London workshop was eventually destroyed by a bomb See less