Vintage art glass for sale

Labelled Coquille Flygsfors 1950s butterfly vase

Here's another of Paul Kedelv's bold, distinctive Flygsfors designs, well-photographed by Pernilla. The mix of sommerso (the double-pronged pink base always reminds me of the roots of a tooth suspended in crystal) and colour layered over white gla...

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3.7kg Timo Sarpaneva Finlandia vase for Iittala

Here's another Finlandia vase - the same series as yesterday's listing - Signed Timo Sarpaneva Iittala Finlandia bark vase.  This one is a very large, unsigned, bottle vase. It's nice to have a piece of art which, despite being produced in v...

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Signed Vicke Lindstrand Kosta 1950s sommerso bowl

Here's a little treasure for a new collector.  This design, in deep purple, from the mid-1950s, is not easy to find, but we picked it up cheaply.  Enjoy! Height: 4.5 cm Width: 15 cm (6 inches) Weight: 495 g Engraved "Kosta LH1...

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Signed Timo Sarpaneva Iittala Finlandia bark vase - one of two

In 1964, Timo Sarpaneva designed a range of vases called Finlandia. The unique and brilliantly clever feature of them was that they were made in carved pine moulds, which were gradually, and intentionally, destroyed through repeated contact with g...

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Signed smoke gray hulevase (hole vase) by Michael Bang for Holmegaard

See http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2617 for my long-winded explanation of this vase.  This is the larger smokey gray vase in the last picture. Height: 14cm Width: 17cm Weight: 330g Engraved "Holmegaard MB" to t...

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Signed Hulevase (hole vase) by Michael Bang for Kastrup Holmegaard

We bought and listed this clear vase along with another, larger gray one, some time ago, back before too many people had found our website.  We were thinking of a customer who was looking for one.  However he'd found one somewhere else.&...

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1950s pinstriped Swedish vase

I've listed a few Lindstrand Kosta pieces with lines in them in the last few days.  Here's a piece to show what some of the lesser Swedish makers can do with stripes.  This is not signed or labelled but is probably from a firm such as Gl...

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Signed Vicke Lindstrand 1950s Kosta Arabesk bowl

Once again, Lindstrand comes up with glass like nothing that anyone had made before, and no-one since - a wonderful design.  This piece is a set with: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2563 The last picture shows them toget...

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Signed Paul Kedelv for Reijmyre 1957 'Harlekin' vase

Here's another Paul Kedelv design.  Not our best photos, I'm afraid, but you can see the progression in this 1957 Reijmyre design from his Flygsfors Coquille designs earlier that decade.  This is better than the current photos show, so w...

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Set of two Per Lutken Holmegaard 'Fionia' bowls

The Fionia bowl is one of Per Lutken's classic 1950s designs.  Ice blue was, along with smoke grey, his colour of choice in the 50s.  Lutken designed for Holmegaard from 1942 until his death in 1998.  He was a genius of glass design...

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