Vintage art glass for sale

Westerberg for Pukeberg labelled sculpture with primitive designs

We've just sold an Uno Westerberg design, so here's another one for your viewing pleasure. This is an "ice block" of cast glass, designed by Westerberg from the 1960s, with primitive, tribal designs of (I think) dragons. Pina & Vig...

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1950s Murano art object with label

We like the art objects of Swedish firm, Flygsfors. Here's an Italian take on the concept. The arms are pulled with metal tools, not moulded.  This one is not so much of an art object that it couldn't actually hold something, but clearly, it...

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Unique personally-signed Bertil Vallien bowl for Kosta Boda

As I list this, an Internet dealer (one of the reputable, up-market ones who actually knows about what he's selling) is trying to sell a unique Vallien bowl in similar colours (ours is more beautiful though) on eBay for US$2350. It's not an outra...

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Zelezny Brod Czech fish sculpture

Here's the second Zelezny Brod piece, a fish sculpture in the distinctive shade of brown used in many of the vintage pieces from this factory. Height: 16 cm (6.5 inches) Length: 16.5 cm Weight: 830 g Condition: two less than 0.5mm fleabites...

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Skrdlovice 1964 Jan Beranek 'Red Core' Czech vase

According to Mark Hill's invaluable book, Hi Sklo Lo Sklo, this piece was shown in the Czechoslovak Glass Review in early 1965 in these colours, and the design was named after the colouring, "Red Core". It was made at Skrdlovice glasswo...

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17 inch double sommerso vintage vaseline art glass centrepiece

This is a monster piece - 4.25kg or about 9 pounds. It has uranium oxide in the one of the layers which makes it fluoresce green under UV black light. (See the 3rd photo.)  This piece has the distinctive signs of age. Our guess is that it'...

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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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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 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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