Vintage art glass for sale

ON HOLD - 17 inch double sommerso vintage vaseline art glass centrepiece

This is a monster piece - 4.25kg or about 9 pounds. It has a layer of uranium oxide in the one of the layers which makes it fluoresce green under UV black light. (See the 4th photo.)  This piece has the distinctive signs of age. Our guess ...

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Signed 1960s 3kg Stromberg facet-cut vase

Many of those who discover the beauty of mid-century art glass are immediately taken with the beauty of facet-cut vases from Murano. The problem with these, from the perspective of collecting, is that because they are still popular, they are stil...

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1954 Landberg Orrefors Tan-si vase

This was designed by Nils Landberg, for Orrefors.  It's in the 1954 Orrefors catalogue.  We have a matching Tan-si bowl also listed on the site.  The two make a very nice set.  It's shown in some of the pictures. They both ...

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1960s Uno Westerberg bull on wooden stand for Pukeberg

We've always liked the cast glass figurines of Uno Westerberg for under-rated Swedish firm, Pukeberg  This is a wonderful piece, the best of the Westerberg figurines that we've seen. However, we picked it up for an embarrassingly low price, s...

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1940s Signed Bergh for Kosta facet-cut sommerso vase

Elis Bergh was design director at Kosta from 1929 until his retirement in 1950, when he was replaced by Vicke Lindstrand. Some of Bergh's pieces, such as this 8-sided sommerso vase, foreshadow the style of glass that would prove to be so successf...

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Labelled Iittala 1978 Jorma Vennola 'Saunojat' art object

Here's something different, a cast art object designed by Jorma Vennola in 1978, and made from 1979 to 1982. It's shows three women sitting on a bench in a sauna with a window behind them. Vennola is an industrial designer who designed for Iitta...

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Labelled 1940s Murano lamp with controlled bubbles and gold

This is the sort of piece that words and pictures can't do justice to.  It looks good in the photos, I think, but you'll find it much more impressive in real life.  It's clever design, with an elegant shape and applied leaf 'feet' which ...

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Stromberg 1960s engraved and cut glass vase

Stromberg pieces generally have the company name and model number engraved on the base. Those which are signed with the name of the designer tend to be special pieces. This one bears two names. One is that of Rune Strand, who was a leading engr...

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Signed 1960s Berndt vase for Flygsfors

This witty vase from Wiktor Berndt made us smile. It's a squared, stylised figure. Certain clues lead us to believe it's a female figure. Berndt came to Flygsfors in 1955. He was chief designer, taking over from Paul Kedelv, from 1956 to 1974....

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Labelled Krahner 80s art glass vase for Skruf

Annette Krahner designed at Swedish glassmakers, Skruf, from 1982 to 1994. This curvy piece is a 1980s design which we've bought and sold previously; we like it, so we've bought it again. Height: 19.5 cm (7.75 inches) Width: 8 cm Weight: 650 g ...

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