Vintage art glass for sale

13 inch black 1950s labelled Sea Kosta vase

This is a simple bud vase from Sea Glasbruk of Kosta in Sweden. It's made special through the colour (black), the size (a large example at 13 inches tall), and the fact that it bears the company's proprietary label. And it's in excellent condi...

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Massive 4.4kg Kotic Skrdlovice vase

This is a monster piece of glass - 4.4kg (over 9lb). It's made with the sommerso technique (a mauve layer under pale blue glass) but the real beauty of the piece lies in the thick creases and puckers of the surface. A lot of the beauty of glass l...

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Interesting art glass bowl

What might look like the tiniest bubbles in the pictures, are actually particles of silver or some other silvery metal.  How would they have made it in a wavey pattern like this? They have sprinkled the silver onto the surface of the glass in...

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ORREFORS Fuga bowl by Palmqvist

The Fuga series won Sven Palmqvist the Grand Prix at the Milan Triennale of 1957. They are a line of domestic and functional glass ingeniously made using centrifical force.   Height: 5.5cm Width: 8.5cm Weight: 235g Marked "fuga O...

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Who buys mid-century art glass?

Viv and Peter were interviewed for a magazine article today, and one of the questions which we stumbled over was, who buys vintage art glass? When we first started selling vintage art glass, we felt that the only people who knew about it were...

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Timo Sarpaneva dies aged 79 in October 2006

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Our lounge pre-Halloween party

I've just been downstairs to take some photos of our "wall of light" to send to Pernilla in Sweden, so I thought I'd put them on the website to show people how beatiful glass can be when you have enough of it to arrange interestingly. So this isn'...

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Not for sale - NZ stock which may be affected by 22-Feb earthquake

Signed VENINI diamonte gold twisted vintage art glass lamp This is a signed Venini lamp, amber with some gold in the glass. It has the 3-line Venini Murano Italia signature used between 1946 and 1965/66. The design is known as "Diamonte&qu...

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Not for sale - NZ stock which may be affected by 22-Feb earthquake

Fratelli Toso aventurine vase - stickered This is a mid-century Fratelli Toso Murano art glass vase with the silver and blue Toso label. It has been hand blown and the top is square pinched using glass tools although there are no remains of the t...

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Not for sale - NZ stock which may be affected by 22-Feb earthquake

LINDSTRAND 50s Kosta vintage art glass bowl We love the work of Vicke Lindstrand.  This is a particularly nice example - the lines on it are so regular and fine. The point where the various spirals meet in the middle of the base is covered ...

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