Vintage art glass for sale

Fratelli Toso bowl with copper aventurine and scalloped rim

Glen, a friend and for a time our business partner, is a big fan of Fratelli Toso, so we've seen a lot of their work.  Lots of curls and twists and scalloping, lots of layers of different colours and metallic oxides and random murrine pattern...

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1980s Kjell Engman for Kosta Boda signed 'artists' collection' paperweight armchair

This paperweight/sculpture in the shape of an comfortable armchair is fun.  It's also rather beautiful, with a variety of shades and patterns of green; it's far from being a simple piece.  The numbering tells us it's from around the mid-...

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1956 signed Nils Landberg Orrefors off-centre vase

A classic vase from Orrefors - flowing, sculptural assymetrical form in a gray-green.  The second picture shows the 1956 catalogue. Height: 29 cm Width: 8 cm Weight: 1105 g Engraved "Orrefors Nu 3538/3" to the base Condition:...

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Stromberg sommerso bowl #5 - chocolate, 6-sided with thick polished rim

This one, number 5 in our Stromberg cigarette bowl series is not signed or labelled but is clearly another mid-century piece from Swedish firm, Strombergshyttan.  'Sommerso' is the Italian for submerged and describes this technique by which a...

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Stromberg sommerso bowl #4 - labelled, chocolate with thick polished rim

Here's number 4 in this series.  They're all slightly different variations on the theme.  This one is squarish with a flat rim. For the others, see: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2664  http://www.modernistgla...

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Signed 1950s Ernest Gordon sommerso vase with complex patterns of tiny bubbles for Boda

This was designed by Englishman Ernest Gordon in the 1950s while working for Swedish firm Boda.  It's very collectible for a number of reasons.  First, no-one had done anything like it before this.  Second, it's a very complex and d...

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Holmegaard 1976 Lutken 'Cascade' footed bowl

I've just listed a piece which I said was reminiscent of Per Lutken's Cascade series for Holmegaard, (see http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2084) so here's an example of that series.  This design is shown on p89 of Lutken's poeti...

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FM Konstglas paperweight sculpture

This is outstanding glassmaking.  The top is like a space helmet with a hole, but the 'hole' attaches to the inside of the glass.  We've come to the conclusion that it's probably the work of FM Konstglas of Ronneby, Sweden.  We see...

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Signed and labelled 1959 Vicke Lindstrand vase #2 for Kosta

Here's the larger of the two 'wine glass' shaped Lindstrand vases, the second of our bargain pieces from the 'back of the website.  This is the clear version.  Vase #1 can be found at: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/15...

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Signed 1959 Vicke Lindstrand vase #1 for Kosta

When we first set up the website, nearly two years ago, Glen, who was working with us at the time, listed quite a lot of glass with just pictures and weights.  The pictures were from Pernilla's old camera, and weren't very good.  The int...

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