April 2008 preview

Signed Vicke Lindstrand 'Trad i dimma' - Trees in Mist - 1951 for Kosta

Kosta master glass-blower, Bengt Heintze was quoted in his biography, Master Bengt: the Glass Legend of Sweden (Hans-Olaf Lundmark, 1995) as saying: Vases like Trees in Mist, Autumn, and Abstract are some of the most beautiful pieces I have made....
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FM Konstglas Ronneby gold paperweight

Many of the figurines of FM Konstglas of Ronneby Sweden had cleverly designed and constructed patterns in the glass to make the glass look more like the real thing, like feathers on a bird, for example, or the skin of a whale.  The pattern wi...
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Signed 1961 orange and black Flygsfors Coquille bowl

We've sold these before in both black with a white design and red with a black design.  Neither Pernilla nor myself can recall seeing an orange and black before.  The black 'V' is painted in thick, raised black glass.  This is from ...

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Signed Ann and Goran Warff 1970s 'primitive' sculpture for Kosta on wooden base

The video below shows the way we think Goran and Ann Warff will have wanted their window-cut pieces to be viewed - looking directly into the cut and polished window, with light behind it.  You can see it larger on Youtube at http://www.youtub...

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1970s signed Vicke Lindstrand Kosta vase with powdered blue net design and cut rim

This is a piece we've never seen before, let alone owned.  It's a heavy sommerso vase from near the end of Lindstrand's distinguished career with Kosta.  It has a cut rim which is more angular than his flowing, organic pieces of the 50s ...

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1970s 2kg signed Bertil Vallien Boda sculpture on wooden base

Vintage art glass sculptures will almost always be more scarce than vases. When it's mounted on a wooden base, you know that it was considered to be something special when it was originally sold.  I'd never seen this design before Pernilla ma...
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1954 Ingeborg Lundin Orrefors vase with 'hat brim' lip

This was designed in 1948 and was shown in the next Orrefors catalogue, in 1954 (see last picture).  It's another rare and special piece.  It has a striking, off-centre, slanted lip, like a hat brim.  Ingeborg Lundin was the first w...

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48cm, 2.9kg Lindstrand 'fish' platter for Kosta

This outstanding piece imposed new challenges on our photography;  it's too big for our set, and only fits in at an angle.  It's all clear crystal; any dark bits are reflections. Length: 48cm (19.25 inches) Height: 6cm Width: 15cm ...

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11.5 inch signed Vicke Lindstrand facet-cut pyramid vase for Kosta

These Lindstrand facet-cut vases are very hard to find.  This is the first we've ever owned.  Perhaps the long, cut edges and tapering sides have meant that few have survived the last 50 years.  Ours is in excellent condition (see b...
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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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Signed Vicke Lindstrand Kosta brick red off-centre vase set

We sold a green set of these in October 2006 (http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1855).  Our own set of these in green is arguably the most beautiful we own.  Soon - perhaps next month - we may finally succeed in getting the ...
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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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