Vintage art glass for sale

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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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" and one correspondent suggested to me that it may have b...

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Large signed 'In the Harbour' 1950s Vicke LINDSTRAND engraved vase

This vase is shown in the 1955/56 Kosta catalogue.  On the whole, critics loved Lindstrand's engraved glass designs for Orrefors pre-1940 but were somewhat dismissive of the Kosta work.  This is currently being reevaluated.  There w...

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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 tool marks. It is cased in a layer of pale b...

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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 by a dot of purple glass. The shape of the va...

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SIGNED Orrefors Landberg art glass smoking set

I haven't ranted about sets in any recent listing, so it's time I did. It's a simple idea - a set of matching pieces is inherently more beautiful and much harder to find than a single piece. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. M...

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Large signed Kosta Vicke Lindstrand seaweed vase

The seaweed vase is a Lindstrand classic .  The seaweed is, I believe, created through a version of the Murano "sommerso" technique.   Instead of a layer of glass over the whole vase, the layers are stripes of green which ...

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Signed Paul Kedelv for Reijmyre 'Harlekin' vase

This is beautiful design - a wonderful blend of colours, masses of clear crystal over a pointed root of purple, and a flowing shape. This is by Swedish glass designer Paul Kedelv. Some people will be familiar with the wild and wonderful work he d...

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Signed SALVIATI MURANO art glass dog

Salviati was one of the leading mid-century Murano glassmakers. This piece is signed. Heiremans' "Murano Glass: Themes and Variations" tells us that this style of signature was introduced in the late 60s and used throughout the 1980s, ...

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Signed 1963 MONA MORALES SCHILDT KOSTA art glass lamp

We love the designs of Mona Morales Schildt for Kosta. Other collectors agree.  Prices are rising by the minute.  Here's one of her finest designs - a lamp from the 1963 Ventana series. It's signed on the base with Morales-Schildt's ful...

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