This beautiful Brondello brand Chianti wine decanter from the glassworks of the Tuscan city of Empoli, Italy is an iconic echo of the 1960s Italian glassware golden age.

Called also 'Genie Bottle', this type of elongated glass flask is a sought after collectible to aficionados of the mid-century glassware tradition from Italy, and in particular the Tuscan city of Empoli.

The Florentine and Tuscan wine industry employed various "vetrarie" glass factories to create many different forms of wine bottles, flask-decanters to be sold filled with their renowned wine. 

Women of Empoli would weave the wicker baskets around the flasks on behalf of the glass factory. They would push a cart to the 'vetraria' and load several hundred glass flasks to take home, along with a large load of raw wicker. Between a house chore and the other, these skilled artisan women would weave dozens of flasks, providing extra income to their families.  This flask is an example of this disappearing tradition.