Vintage art glass for sale

Engraved signed and labelled 1960s Vicke Lindstrand Kosta heron

Hans has done exceptionally well to capture the pattern in his photographs but you will need to enlarge the pictures to appreciate the detail.  I'm afraid the video doesn't help.  You'll have to look at the still photos. Our view is tha...

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Not for sale - NZ stock which may be affected by 22-Feb earthquake

The mystery of this piece is now solved.  Mark Hill, (www.markhillpublishing.com) has just published the catalog for Hi Sklo Lo Sklo, an exhibition of Czech glass from the 1950s to the 1970s which we highly recommend.  He's helped us to ...

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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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Pair of signed and labelled 1950s crystal VAL SAINT LAMBERT bowls

These are from Belgian firm, Val St-Lambert.  Murano and Scandinavia get all the attention, so mid-century VSL is under-rated and undervalued.  These can be purchased separately for $100 each.  (Email us at inquiries@modernistglass...

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Sea Kosta 1950s signed art glass 3-piece set

This is an outstanding set at a bargain price. SEA was a Swedish firm based in the town of Kosta, often confused by Internet auction sellers with the more well-known firm of Kosta (which was later known as Kosta Boda, and ultimately took over SEA...

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Stromberg cylinder shaped sommerso vase stickered

This is a special one from Strombergshyttan - an attractive design that we've not seen before, in a large size.  It's a bud vase or "solifleur".  Note the colours fading down from the top.  Everybody loves the clean line...

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Unique signed Mona Morales-Schildt 1970 40cm shallow bowl with pattern of canes of glass

If you're looking for investment art, a large, striking piece of modernist art glass marked "unik", designed by a leading mid-century glass designer (one of the pioneer female designers), and made in 1970 by a famous Swedish glassmaker, ...

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