Vintage art glass for sale

Fratelli Toso bowl with copper aventurine and scalloped rim

Glen, a friend and for a time our business partner, is a big fan of Fratelli Toso, so we've seen a lot of their work.  Lots of curls and twists and scalloping, lots of layers of different colours and metallic oxides and random murrine pattern...

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1980s Kjell Engman for Kosta Boda signed 'artists' collection' paperweight armchair

This paperweight/sculpture in the shape of an comfortable armchair is fun.  It's also rather beautiful, with a variety of shades and patterns of green; it's far from being a simple piece.  The numbering tells us it's from around the mid-...

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Rare signed 1950s Vicke Lindstrand Kosta vase

This is a small but precious sommerso vase.  It is from the late 50s but didn't appear in the Kosta catalogue of 1959.  Not all designs could be fitted in the catalogue, and the design numbers jump from 1300 to 1326, omitting this design...

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1956 signed Nils Landberg Orrefors off-centre vase set

This is a set of classic vases from Orrefors - flowing, sculptural assymetrical forms in a gray-green.  The last picture shows the 1956 catalogue. Vase 1 - our ref: 2584 Height: 29 cm Width: 8 cm Weight: 1105 g Engraved "Orrefors ...

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Stromberg sommerso bowl #5 - chocolate, 6-sided with thick polished rim

This one, number 5 in our Stromberg cigarette bowl series is not signed or labelled but is clearly another mid-century piece from Swedish firm, Strombergshyttan.  'Sommerso' is the Italian for submerged and describes this technique by which a...

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Stromberg sommerso bowl #4 - labelled, chocolate with thick polished rim

Here's number 4 in this series.  They're all slightly different variations on the theme.  This one is squarish with a flat rim. For the others, see: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2664  http://www.modernistgla...

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Signed 1970s 4kg Vicke Lindstrand Kosta 'battuto' glass ashtray

This is a monster, a wonderful 4kg companion piece to the smaller version we have listed at http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2483 It's made with a technique the Italians call 'battuto' meaning beaten.  After the piece cools, th...

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Signed 1950s Ernest Gordon sommerso vase with complex patterns of tiny bubbles for Boda

This was designed by Englishman Ernest Gordon in the 1950s while working for Swedish firm Boda.  It's very collectible for a number of reasons.  First, no-one had done anything like it before this.  Second, it's a very complex and d...

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Holmegaard 1976 Lutken 'Cascade' footed bowl

I've just listed a piece which I said was reminiscent of Per Lutken's Cascade series for Holmegaard, (see http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2084) so here's an example of that series.  This design is shown on p89 of Lutken's poeti...

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Amazing inside-out FM Konstglas paperweight sculpture

This is outstanding glassmaking.  The top is like a space helmet with a hole, but the 'hole' attaches to the inside of the glass.  We've come to the conclusion that it's probably the work of FM Konstglas of Ronneby, Sweden.  Here's...

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