Vintage art glass for sale

Over the top 1960s Murano art glass bowl with cut and pulled rim

There's a lot of glassmaking in this piece.  Whichever angle you look at this from, there's something happening.  It has a ribbed base, vibrant colour, a swirled pattern, and a pulled and patterned rim.  The rim has been snipped wit...

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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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Signed Mona Morales-Schildt 1960s sommerso bowl for Kosta

This is a weighty sommerso bowl from Mona Morales-Schildt. ("Sommerso" is the Italian term for this style of heavy cased piece "submerged" in clear glass.) The last photo shows a couple of matching vases from the same series....

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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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Signed and labelled 1970s Stromberg moulded vase

If you look at the other Stromberg pieces on our site you'll see we generally seek out their sommerso (coloured glass with a thick clear layer). However, the flowing design of this one took my colleague, Pernilla's eye, and rightly so; it's a ver...

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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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1950s sommerso vase

Here's a fourth tall, thin vase.  We attribute this to Sea Glasbruk, the Kosta-based firm, however, it's unsigned and bears no label. It could well be from one of the other smaller Swedish firms. The quality is good and the design is clever...

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1960s Borgstrom for Aseda tall sommerso vase with original model number and label

As you might suppose, most the vases we sell were designed, not primarily as art, but for putting flowers in! I'm going to list a series of tall, thin vases, designed for one flower (or at least, a small number of flowers). This first one is a d...

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