Vintage art glass for sale

Ove Sandeberg yellow lamp with clear protuberances for Kosta

We don't know too much about Ove Sandeberg, but he seems to have been something of a lamp specialist at Kosta in the 60s and 70s.  The only other pieces of Sandeberg that we've owned were also lamps. Vintage lamps are great - practical it...

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Signed Olle Alberius 1970s gold Orrefors paperweight with champagne bubbles and window cutting

This piece has so much happening - gold, bubbles, and cut glass - that you need to look at lots of photos to understand it.  The bubbles in the middle, with the clever cutting (6 concave circles around the upper hemisphere) gives an optic eff...

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3.7kg Timo Sarpaneva Finlandia vase for Iittala

Here's another Finlandia vase - the same series as yesterday's listing - Signed Timo Sarpaneva Iittala Finlandia bark vase.  This one is a very large, unsigned, bottle vase. It's nice to have a piece of art which, despite being produced in v...

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Signed Timo Sarpaneva Iittala Finlandia bark vase - one of two

In 1964, Timo Sarpaneva designed a range of vases called Finlandia. The unique and brilliantly clever feature of them was that they were made in carved pine moulds, which were gradually, and intentionally, destroyed through repeated contact with g...

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1950s pinstriped Swedish vase

I've listed a few Lindstrand Kosta pieces with lines in them in the last few days.  Here's a piece to show what some of the lesser Swedish makers can do with stripes.  This is not signed or labelled but is probably from a firm such as Gl...

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On hold - Signed Paul Kedelv for Reijmyre 1957 'Harlekin' vase

Here's another Paul Kedelv design.  Not our best photos, I'm afraid, but you can see the progression in this 1957 Reijmyre design from his Flygsfors Coquille designs earlier that decade.  This is better than the current photos show, so w...

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Signed Lindstrand 'birds in a cage' Kosta prism

I've changed the first photo and I think this should now give people a fairer idea of how good this piece is.  It's a very clever, engraved prism, with birds fluttering behind bars.  We've owned one of these before, and sold it to a gent...

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49cm (20 inch), signed, 1950s Lindstrand Kosta bowl

The first photo shows this backlit on a stand, so you can appreciate the colours, but really, this was designed to sit on a table so that you could look down on it.  If you have a decent sized coffee table or a spot on your dining room table ...

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Signed Vicke Lindstrand 1950s Kosta red zebra vase

We listed one of these in the rarer chocolate colour recently.  See http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2517  Today's listing is substantially cheaper, and while not as rare, there will no doubt be those who prefer red to bro...

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Signed Maija Karlsson Finnish Kumela art glass bowl

This is a leaf-like, lip-like bowl with opaque ribbons of white.  It is shown in Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Smoke and Ice, p63.  It was designed by Maija Karlsson, who worked for Finnish firm, Oy Kumela from 1950.  Height: 7 cm ...

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