This is a pair of vintage, hand-blown glass goblets from the Spanish brand Vidrios de Levante.
Vidrios de Levante is a historic Spanish glassware manufacturer famous for its vibrant, eco-conscious, and artisan-crafted glass creations. The brand translates directly to "Glass of the Levant", a direct nod to the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain—a region with a deep, multi-century heritage of glassmaking.
Several defining hallmarks set this brand apart:
1. Pioneers in Eco-Friendly Recycled Glass: Long before sustainability became a mainstream industry standard, Vidrios de Levante built its identity around green production. The vast majority of their tableware and decorative pieces are crafted from 100% recycled glass using traditional furnace-melting methods.
2. Traditional Artisan Craftsmanship: While the company provides modern utilitarian options like commercial beer and olive oil bottles today, they are universally celebrated in the collector's market for their hand-blown mid-century art glass. Because they utilize traditional artisan methods, their vintage items feature distinctive organic traits: Imperfect texturing and ripples, Trapped air bubbles inside the glass structure, Striking two-tone gradients (like these turquoise-to-cobalt goblets) and heavily embossed floral textures.
3. Highly Collectible Signature Colours: Collectors specifically seek out Vidrios de Levante for the rich saturation of their glass colours. Their cobalt blue items are particularly iconic. This deep hue is famously produced by blending cobalt oxide into the recycled glass melt, yielding a brilliant depth of colour that serves as a major identifier for the brand on secondary platforms.
4. Legacy and Modern Presence: The brand reached a massive peak in international popularity between the 1940s and 1980s, exporting decorative vases, carafes, and stemware across the globe. Today, Vidrios de Levante maintains active operations out of Spain, producing classic "Eco Vintage" tableware, Mediterranean oil decanters, and customized glassware, carrying their centuries-old region's history into the modern era.
The glasses feature a two-tone gradient design. The flared tulip-shaped bowls are a vibrant translucent turquoise/aquamarine green, which transitions seamlessly down into solid cobalt blue stems and bases.
They exhibit classic hand-blown characteristics, including a smooth but slightly organic contour, a subtle texture, and a flared, wide rim.
Both glasses retain their original diamond-shaped black stickers displaying the company's logo, which reads "Vidrios de Levante / HAND MADE / SPAIN".
Condition
The pair is in vintage unused condition with no chips or cracks and retaining their original labels. The pair (true to hand blown items) is slightly different in size.
Height: 22 cm and 21.8 cm, Base: 8.4 cm and 8 cm, Rim: 9.3 cm
