Vintage art glass for sale

Matching set of labelled mid-century bud vases - 1 Orrefors, 1 Kosta

This is an interesting one.  Although they were a matching set, one was labelled Orrefors and the other was labelled Kosta.  One label had to be wrong, surely?  Not so!  Both firms made bud vases in this design.  Perhaps i...

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Vicke Lindstand 1950s Kosta Spring bowl and vase

If I had to pick the most collectible pieces from Vicke Lindstrand's 1955/56 Kosta 1 catalogue, I would pick his "Unica" pieces - the Spring, Autumn, Trees in Fog, and Abstracta series.  This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to t...

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Lundin for Orrefors yellow penguin-shaped beak vase

This penguin-shaped beak vase was designed by 1954 Lunning Prize winner, Ingeborg Lundin, for Orrefors, probably in the 1960s.  Lundin worked for Orrefors from 1952 to 1971, one of the first female designers to design for a major glassmaker. ...

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1950s Murano Sommerso duck with lamp on its head

Our motto is "we only sell beautiful glass" so we don't usually sell kitsch, but we couldn't go past this fantastic 1940s or 1950s Murano duck lampshade, still with an old shade, presumably original.  The duck is a quality piece of ...

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Bengt Orup bowl with metal particles for Hyllinge

Pina and Vigier's invaluable book, Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Smoke and Ice, p52, shows a similar-sized Orup piece (a 21cm tall vase) for Johansfors in the same technique which they say was designed around 1967.  They value it at US$800-10...

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Oiva Toikka-designed Arabia Finnish art glass crystal vase

In the early 1950s, Finnish glassmaker, Nuutajarvi Notsko was sold to Wartsila Group, which also owned Arabia, the leading Finnish pottery maker.  Arabia labels are sometimes found on mid-century Nuutajarvi glass pieces.  We would specul...

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Signed Edenfalk 1960s cut sunburst vase for Skruf

This is a 1960s or 1970s vase from Swedish glassmaker, Skruf.  It's a variation on the sunburst design and looks like something I might have created using my spirograph set in the late 60s, except that it's carved in glass.  Our Swedish ...

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Flygsfors 1960s Wiktor Berndt Zodiac series Taurus Vase

Berndt replaced Kedelv as chief designer at Flygsfors in 1956.  This vase is one of a noteworthy series he did in the 1960s - mould-blown, with coloured underlay (here grey) and cased in clear, and with surface relief of figures or scenes.&nb...

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Labelled Orrefors abstract sculpture

We like glass sculptures, so we couldn't go past this one from Orrefors, at a bargain price.  It has the initials/logo RF, but we don't know what this stands for.  Our best guess is that the sculpture represents a logo or mascot, presuma...

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Murano fazzoletto (handkerchief) vase

These were originally designed by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini, but many of the other Murano firms began to make their own versions.  Examples with applied bases will generally be worth much less than those made in one piece, like this one.&nbs...

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