Vintage art glass for sale

Documented 7.1kg Flavio Poli for Seguso Vetri d'Arte Biennale vase

The last picture shows a purple version of this piece in the book, Murano, Island of Glass, by Attilia Dorigato, and identifies it as a 1954 design.  It was displayed at the 1956 Venice Biennale.    This is the first time we'v...

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Labelled 'Bonora and C' Murano textured sommerso vase

The label on this vase reads "Vetri molati" (Italian for "ground glass") "Bonora & C" ("Bonora & Co") "Murano Venezia" (Murano Venice).  This glass is very similar to pieces made by Ca...

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How do I display my glass?

Hi. I found your site and looked at a few pieces and thought they might go well with our house, which is vaguely modern. But my concern is with displaying them - I'd want to show them off properly but don't have a good sense of how to do thi...

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1964 Finnish Oiva Toikka Kastehelmi (dewdrop) plates for Nuutajaarvi

This is a very cool, collectible design from 1964.  As you can see, they display very well, but I would buy them to use.  You could spend much more on a brand new set of plates and get much less for your money. Professor Oiva Toikka b...

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Large Fratelli Toso bowl with copper aventurine and feathered pattern

It's not exactly 'modernist', but this is a very fine piece of its type and very good value at this price.  It's an example of the best of more traditional Murano mid-century design - swirling patterns of canes. feathering, and scalloped edge...

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1960s Cenedese vaseline (uranium) glass bowl

Vaseline glass is glass with uranium dioxide in it that glows fluorescent green under UV black light.  There's not a lot of uranium freely available today, and most of what is available is, frankly, ugly.  Not so this modernist piece fro...

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Labelled 17 inch V Nason large Murano bird with gold and silver aventurine

If you want an impressive piece, big is good.  This striking bird figurine by Murano firm V Nason is very big and, we think, very beautiful.  It's made of dark blue glass cased in clear and translucent around the edges, with gold and sil...

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Pair of mid-century vases with holes, green by Gunnar Ander for Lindshammar

Orange and green are complementary colours, and these display very well together.  The green vase is definitely the design of Swedish designer, Gunnar Ander, for Lindshammar Glasbruk.  An architect by profession, he designed at Lindshamm...

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Czech Jizerske Sklo art glass triangular vase in transparent and matte glass

This piece is unmarked but it's a very distinctive and ingenious design - a clear bud vase set in a unique winged triangular shape of matte glass.  The particular feature, to my mind, is that the abstract swirl pattern in the matte glass is s...

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Gio Ponti 'Sette colori' beaker for Venini circa 1948

This is a chance to own a special piece of glass, a 1948 design of Gio Ponti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio_Ponti) one of the great names of  20th Century architecture and design.  Learned Italian scholars amongst our readers will kno...

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