Vintage art glass for sale

Signed 1950s Vicke Lindstrand 'LC2' 'Colora' vase for Kosta

I think this one, in brown fading to greenish brown at the top, with ruby red stripes, is the pick of the Colora vase designs, but the colours and stripes are subtle so you'll need to enlarge the pictures to see what I mean.  The Colora serie...

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Murano bowl with bold stripes and bubble pattern

I've included a Finnish bowl, by Kaj Franck, in this batch of listings. Here's an interesting Murano bowl, by way of comparison. The Finnish version is simplicity itself, in black with a gleam of silver on the rim. The Italian version has strip...

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Signed 1959 Orrefors Expo vase - Landberg off-centre in rare size

Production versions of this design were made in 24cm, 30cm and 39cm sizes. This 11cm version is likely to be one of the few in existence in this size. From 1944, Orrefors' art glass collection was called "Expo" and produced in limited q...

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Signed 30cm Paul Kedelv 1956 Flygsfors 'Flamingo' bowl

The videos give the best understanding this piece, which was quite challenging to photograph. Kedelv is best known for his Coquille series for Flygsfors, but his Flamingo series is also attractive and collectible, but much harder to find. ...

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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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Largest Milan Metelak for Harrachov 1950s double sommerso vase with internal threads

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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