Vintage art glass for sale

Gorgeous FA W Johansson art glass ashtray

The pictures speak for themselves, but let us tell you something about where this beautiful ashtray came from. It's Swedish art glass from the town of Orrefors. This one isn't signed but a couple of other pieces in this design that we have owned...

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Signed Vicke Lindstrand art glass seaweed vase

Click on the picture for weight, measurements and condition - more detailed information on this piece will be added soon.   Height: 18.5cm Width: 13cm Weight: 2kg Engraved Kosta LS 1965 to the base Condition: Near mint. Very light wear ...

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ORREFORS heart-shaped crystal clock - labelled and branded

Get in early for Valentines day. We're not sure of the age of this Orrefors clock, but it's not in their current stock. Our guess is that it's fairly recent. As bedside clocks go, it's pretty cool.   Height: 10cm Width: 10.5x1.5cm Weig...

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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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Signed PLUS Richard Duborgh 1967 Norwegian art glass vase

This is a very stylish vase by Plus Glasshytte of Norway, a nice grey/green colour, and an interesting effect with the bubbles in different sizes and the layers of colour. I bought it without knowing much about Plus, simply because it was clearl...

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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

Obituary from the iittala website Timo Sarpaneva In Memoriam (*Oct 31st, 1926 ... Born in 1926 in Helsinki Timo Sarpaneva was one of the great personalities responsible for the world reputation of Finnish design since the 1950s. Sarpaneva ...

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