May 2008 preview

Signed 1950s Lindstrand 'Atlantis' vase with purple fishnet and cut school of fish

BUYER FEEDBACK:  "my fellow glass aficionados, just wanted to drop you a line in between client sessions to let you know that the shipment arrived today. the atlantis vase is so much more striking than it appears in the photographs, and...
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Edvin Ohrstrom 'Girl and Dove' 4kg Ariel vase for Orrefors

This is more wonderful than we can show you.  It's one of the absolute classic mid-century glass designs but... a challenging piece to sell on the Internet because it's incredibly hard to photograph.  You can understand when a piece has ...

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Signed 1970s Ann and Goran Warff vase for Kosta

In the 60s and 70s, Whitefriars in England, Iittala and Humppila in Finland, and others, made moulded vases with a rough textured 'bark' finish.  The talented Warffs made a series of pieces with their version of this type of texture but in br...

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Monster green 20 inch, 5kg signed 1960s Flygsfors Fantasia art object

CUSTOMER COMMENT:  "I was a little worried when I saw the box it arrived in.  It was rather beat up.  But, the piece was intact and in perfect condition.  Thanks for your efforts." SELLER COMMENT: all of our glass is ...
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Ernest Gordon large 50s or 60s sculptural sommerso vase for Afors

Ernest Gordon was an Englishman who designed for Afors from 1953 to 1963.  This is a large, heavy double sommerso piece.  The lower part of the vase has layers of blue then brown, cased with clear.  The upper part doesn't have the b...
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On hold - Signed pair of 1965 Kaj Franck Nuutajarvi Notsjo goblet vases

Some months after listing these I found that Pina and Vigier value them at $400-$500 each in their book, Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Fire & Sea.  :-/  However, the price I listed them at stands. This is an elegant pair of vases by...
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Signed Vicke Lindstrand zebra vase for Kosta

This piece provides an opportunity for people to own a set of zebra vases.  This listing is for the smaller of the two.  The larger one is listed at Vicke Lindstrand rare brown 1950s zebra vase and is priced at US$1230.  The brown i...

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1950s Czech Harrtil 'merletto' perfume bottle

Harrtil is often mistaken for the merletto pieces of Archimede Seguso.  The mesh on the Seguso works are an illusion created by joining two blown bubbles with filigree lines, thus creating a net-like effect. Harrtil, on the other hand is made...

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1980s Edenfalk vase for Kosta Boda, signed unique

Here's a big, one-off vase from a famous Swedish designer.  Edenfalk, the inventor of the Thalatta technique, has had a long and distinguished career in glass design in Sweden, notably with Skruf and Kosta, and in more recent times as a free-...

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Labelled modernist 1960s Eva Englund ashtray for Pukeberg

This is such a cool design, I can barely bring myself to sell it.  It's all clever angles and it just screams 'modernist', but it also has the brilliant textured effect that is seen in Pukeberg pieces of this era, reminiscent of ice, plus a g...
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Signed Vicke Lindstrand 1950s pinstriped vase for Kosta

Classic pinstriped vase from Lindstrand.  Shown in the 1955-56 Kosta catalogue.  The last picture shows a scan from that catalogue.  It also shows zebra vases, examples of which we have also listed on our site.  See for instanc...

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1950s labelled sommerso Murano Cat Decanter attributed to Seguso Vetri d'Arte

BUYER COMMENT:  "My Cat Decanter arrived this morning safe and sound, I love it." A heavy yellow and green sommerso piece of this age is generally assumed, rightly or wrongly, to be by Archimede Seguso or Seguso Vetri d'Arte. ...
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Signed Sigurd Persson 1980s Kosta bowl

BUYER FEEDBACK:  "my fellow glass aficionados, just wanted to drop you a line in between client sessions to let you know that the shipment arrived today. the atlantis vase is so much more striking than it appears in the photographs, an...
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