Vintage art glass for sale

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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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 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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Set of Schott for Smalandshyttan vases

I like some of the moulded vases from the 60s and 70s. Machine-made glass was starting to affect glass sales. Traditional glassmakers were trying to compete by producing more complex moulded vases. These were obviously cheaper to produce - they ...

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Pair of signed Kosta Sandeberg 1970s lamps

Check out the video of this one.  As I've said before on this site, vintage art glass lamps are generally very good value.  For some reason a lamp is generally  cheaper than an art glass vase of comparable size and similar design, a...

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Bohemia Glassworks 1960s labelled Czech figurine of nude

Time for a Czech figurine. This has two labels, one telling us it was made in Czechoslovakia, the other, apparently, from an Italian retailer. We bought it from a seller in the USA. The Czech label tells us that it was made by Bohemia Glasswork...

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Iittala vase

This Iittala vase is unsigned but has the distinctive look of a Iittala molded vase. The pine mold burns away as it is used and reused, ensuring that each piece is slightly different. Height: 22.5 cm Width: 8 cm Weight: 380 g Condition: lig...

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1950s pinstriped Sea Glasbruk gooseneck vase

This is the seventh and last in my series of tall thin bud vases. It's an example of what is arguably Sea Glasbruk's finest design, the goose-neck vase. It's a classic 1950s vase. These were originally the design of Dekor Etsning Kosta, (litera...

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Signed Kosta Lindstrand 1970s paperweight

The numbering on this paperweight, with bubbled leaves or perhaps flames set in crystal, tells us that it was designed in the early 1970s, towards the end of Vicke Lindstrand's outstanding career at Kosta. Height: 6 cm Width: 6 cm Weight: 295...

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