Vintage art glass for sale

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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1960s Paolo Venini incalmo 'Clessidre' hourglass

"Hourglass", in Italian, is "Clessidre".  This piece is shown in the 1969 Venini Catalogo Verde, in Nigel Benson's Millars Glass of the 50s and 60s, and in Leslie Pina's Circa Fifties Glass.  The simplicity of the des...

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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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Heavy, moulded Paul Kedelv, 1964 Sargasso bowl for Reijmyre

Kedelv is one of our favourite mid-century glass designers.  Much of his work at Flygsfors between 1952 and 1956 was outstanding.  After Flygsfors, he went to Reijmyre and, among other things, designed this clever and beautiful bowl in t...

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Vintage Archimede Seguso Murano 2kg gold sommerso Mexican figurine

Since I listed this, Leslie Pina's book on Archimede Seguso has come out.  It shows a number of Mexican caricature figurines (p166-168), both in sommerso and in Seguso's distinctive alabastro glass, all with the exact same characteristic pose...

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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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1976 Ingeborg Lundin ariel vase

We now have video of this piece, which should help people who've never seen ariel glass to understand how beautiful it is.   This design was from the early 60s but this particular vase was made in 1976.  Another example of this L...

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Edvin Ohrstrom 'Girl and Dove' 4kg Ariel vase for Orrefors

This is more wonderful than we can show you.  It's one of the absolute classic mid-century glass designs but... a challenging piece to sell on the Internet because it's incredibly hard to photograph.  You can understand when a piece has ...

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Signed 1970s Ann and Goran Warff vase for Kosta

In the 60s and 70s, Whitefriars in England, Iittala and Humppila in Finland, and others, made moulded vases with a rough textured 'bark' finish.  The talented Warffs made a series of pieces with their version of this type of texture but in br...

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