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A vintage glass bowl, marked Bayel France, purple and clear glass, sixties design, wide 37 cm., 14.5", height  5-7.5 cm., 2-3". In perfect condition.

Wikipedia says: Bayel has been known for glass work since the year 1300. King Louis XIV gave it the label Royal Manufacturer of Crystal in Bayel  The factory later became the Royal Crystal of Champagne. The crystal works formerly had about 600 employees at the beginning of the 1970s but today there remain only 39