Vintage art glass for sale

Signed Edenfalk for Skruf ice block paperweight with engraved spouting whale

We sold a Bengt Edenfalk vase last week, so here's another of his pieces to replace it. This is a charming little paperweight from Skruf. It's a moulded ice block, intended to suggest a view from an iceberg, with a spouting whale engraved on the...

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Metal and glass hanging candle holder attributed to Erik Hoglund

It may not be to the taste of those who prefer simple modernist lines, but here's something in a somewhat different style.  It's a mix of elaborate, curled metal and simple glass discs with primative designs.  I bought it for our own hou...

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Double sommerso Seguso or Barbini art glass duck with thick gold

There are some who don't appreciate Murano figurines. I too, was sceptical about Murano ducks, until a spotter we used in Sydney some years ago (an elderly Venetian immigrant), showed us one her husband had bought for her when Murano glass first ...

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How to identify this signed "Lindstrand Kosta" vase as a fake

I list this to help people avoid buying fakes (or at least know when they've been had, as we were in this case.)  We were excited to buy this tall, heavy Vicke Lindstrand vase - the simple but beautiful design in blue with a very pale blue la...

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Important labelled Seguso Vetri d'Arte art glass sculpture - Flavio Poli or Mario Pinzoni design

This bears a proprietary Seguso Vetri d'Arte label from the right era, so it will have been the work of either Poli or his assistant and successor, Mario Pinzoni. The vintage label is shown in one of the pictures. Heiremans' Murano Glass: Themes a...

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Set of 3 Gunnar Nylund-designed Stromberg shark tooth vases

We've finally managed to put together a set of these tall shark tooth vases. Our last set of these was made up of much shorter vases  - these ones are big and bold and stunning. The three are 24cm, 25cm, and 26cm. (25.5cm = 10 inches.) Th...

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Signed Ann Warff 1970s Kosta 'crystal rock' paperweight

This piece is from the 1970s. It takes an idea used in other Warff pieces (the polished window that allows us to peek into this piece is also seen in http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2398 and others) and gives it a smart new twi...

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Signed clear Michael Bang for Holmegaard 'hule' vase

These are a simple but brilliant design by Michael Bang for Danish firm Holmegaard. The randomised holes (hule) allow you to arrange your flowers in such a way that they stay where you put them. Personally, I prefer them without the flowers. ...

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Signed clear Hulevase (hole vase) by Michael Bang for Kastrup Holmegaard

This is a cool space age design from Michael Bang, designed in the 1970s and not easy to find.  Not only are they stylish design in keeping with the ethos of the time but the holes had a practical purpose in the vase version (though less so i...

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Signed smoke gray hulevase (hole vase) by Michael Bang for Holmegaard

See http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2617 for my long-winded explanation of this vase.  This is the larger smokey gray vase in the last picture. Height: 14cm Width: 17cm Weight: 330g Engraved "Holmegaard MB" to t...

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