Vintage art glass for sale

Rare signed Flygsfors 1955 Kedelv folded bowl

This bowl is folded over so that when you look through the bowl from the side you see the organic 'camoflage' pattern four times.  This pattern has been made by the sommerso technique, similar to the Trees in Fog design of Lindstrand.  T...

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Signed 1960 Nils Landberg sommerso vase set for Orrefors

This design appeared in the Orrefors catalogue of 1960.  It is reasonably typical of sommerso (coloured glass cased in heavy crystal) produced by the Orrefors designers of this time; beautiful in an austere and simple way, both in colour and ...

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1960s Set of 3 gold Ann and Goran Warff Kosta paperweights with mass of random bubbles

The pictures largely speak for themselves.  The fact that they are signed "Warff" indicates that they were jointly designed by Lunning Prize winners Ann and Goran Warff in the 1960s or very early 70s.  Very collectable.  ...

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2 signed Lindstrand perfume bottles, 1 for Kosta, 1 for Orrefors

One of our customers asked about perfume bottles.  We have a number in stock which haven't been listed on our site until now, including a couple of Mona Morales-Schildt Ventana pieces which I'll list sometime soon.  In the meantime, here...

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1960 signed Holmegaard paperweight with bubbles

This is a very beautiful, signed paperweight from Holmegaard of Denmark, made in 1960, in midnight blue with fine bubbles.  The last photo shows it with a Swedish paperweight by FM Konstglas.  See http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspiece...

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Labelled Archimede Seguso 1950s/60s sommerso duck

Among all the many, many pieces incorrectly attributed to Archimede Seguso on the web, here's a genuine Seguso with its original label:  MADE BY SEGUSO ARCHIMEDE MURANO MERCERIE S. ZULIAN 711 SEGUSO GLASS.  Merceria San Zulian is the mai...

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Bengt Edenfalk 1960s Thalatta vase for Skruf

Thalatta is similar to the Ariel glass developed at Orrefors in all but one important respect.  Thalatta is made with hot glass whereas Ariel is cooled, then engraved.  Understandably, Thalatta is generally a less precise result, giving ...

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Stickered Strombergshyttan opalescent vase

Continuing our quest to offer you a range of the most interesting mid-century modernist art glass from Scandinavia and Italy, this is opalescent glass, cased in crystal, from Strombergshyttan of Sweden.  The usual way to create opalescent gla...

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Vicke Lindstrand signed 1960s 'Patina' vase with cut lenses

The Patina vase was a good seller for Kosta in the 1960s but few of them come up for sale.  They are textured on the inside, smooth on the outside.  The 'patina' - named for the fine layer of oxide and wear that forms on metal or furnitu...

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1950s signed and stickered blue and white FA W Johansson finger vase

Yesterday I listed a fingervase from Flygsfors.  Here's the budget version, for those who flinched at the price of the Flygsfors.  It's also wild and beautiful, but it's signed and labelled by the firm of W Johansson of the town of Orref...

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