Hi Des
Our organisation deals with Venetian murano glass blowing furnaces that produced Venetian goblets in the 17th century style known as FACON DE VENISE which tranlsates virtually to "IN THE VENETIAN STYLE". These goblets are definitely in the Facon De Venise style and the techniques used are similar to that of Murano, but the addition of flowers to the stem is not a known technique used when producing Venetian goblets which indicates a 98% plus chance that these are indeed Chinese or of some other origin. Please visit our website to view authtentic Facon De Venise goblets produced in Venice and you will see exactly what I mean. The stems are all wrong, the addition of flowers to the stem is a dead giveaway that they are not of Venetian origin but highly decorative none the less. The link below is just a small selection of Facon de Venice goblets, chalices etc that you can view with an embedded video showing the production of such a goblet which although it seems simple enough, it is mindblowingly difficult and can only be done by the Maestro, not his apprentices due to its technical difficulty and the fine window in which they have to work when the glass is semi solid and solid.
Please enjoy
Ciao
Dean
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