http://www.modernistglass.com/ Latest pieces added to Modernistglass.com en-us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:39:50 +1300 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CakePHP everyone@modernistglass.com (Modernistglass.com Team) webmaster@modernistglass.com (Modernistglass.com webmaster) http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2477 Cigar Aficionado magazine reported in a 1993 issue that crystal-makers like Waterford of Ireland and Steuban of the US had virtually stopped making ashtrays. There simply wasn't the demand. For that reason, the rarity-value of quality smoking sets such as this one is increasing. This is a set by star designers, Ann and Goran Warff for leading Swedish manufacturers, Kosta, in the late 60s or early 70s. Lighter: Height: 9 cm Width: 9 cm Weight: 875 g Engraved "Kosta 96156 Warff" to the base Condition: base protected by felt dots, a handful of less than 0.5mm fleabites to the rim of the base, a couple of "scratchlike" marks from manufacture just above the base Ashtray: Height: 5 cm Diameter: 13 cm Weight: 1370 g Engraved" Kosta 76154" to the base Condition: light wear to the base (protected by felt dots) aside from two less than 0.5mm fleabites to the rim of the base, a few small scuffs and scratches to the exterior and interior of the ashtray (longest 3mm) Bowl: Height: 6.5 cm Diameter: 12 cm Weight: 935 g Engraved "II" (?) to the base Condition: very light wear to the base, a less than 0.5mm black mark inside the glass from manufacture (which may be why it was marked a second?) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:38:40 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2477 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2771 This is a nice example of a good-sized pinstripe vase. The stripes have a stylish twist. It's unsigned and hard to identify - our guess was Afors. Pina and Vigier in Scandinavian Glass 1930-2000: Fire & Sea, point out that: "Many Swedish companies utilized this pinstripe technique during the 1950s and 1960s. Examples by Kosta are easy to identify because those pieces are usually signed and were created by Vicke Lindstrand. Identification of pieces by other companies is more difficult because they were often only labeled, and not signed. Some of the companies that used this technique are Sea Glasbruk (sometimes signed), Glimma Glasbruck, Smalandshyttan, Skruf, and Johansfors." The Lindstrands are superior, for design and, generally, quality of manufacture, but the others are considerably cheaper! Here are some of the other pinstriped pieces on our site: 1960s Lindstrand Kosta off-centre sommerso vase with vertical lines Signed 1950s Vicke Lindstrand Kosta bowl/vase - dark green with white pinstripes Lindstrand Kosta 1950s bowl, cased with white stripes KOSTA signed VICKE LINDSTRAND pinstriped 1955 vase 1950s pinstriped Swedish vase Signed Vicke Lindstrand 1950s pinstriped vase for Kosta Signed 1950s Vicke Lindstrand 'LC2' 'Colora' vase for Kosta 1950s pinstriped Sea Glasbruk gooseneck vase Height: 24.5 cm (9.75 inches) Width: 7 cm Weght: 555 g Condtion: very light wear to the base, a 1.4 cm burst bubble underneath the base, a few scuffs and scratches elsewhere (longest 1mmx1.3 cm), some 0.5mm and less unintended bubbles, marks after water Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:09 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2771 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1939 This is an outstanding set. Four pieces like this are very hard to find. We bought these in 2006 and they have spent most of the time since then sitting on a shelf in our living room, full of various alcoholic liquids. If your practical storage items look good, why not leave them on display? (Although, admittedly, the smaller decanters are more about looking good as a set than holding much alcohol.) These are known colloquially as cluck cluck decanters (or kluck kluck or kluk kluk and no doubt other spellings) for the noise they make when pouring. The proper name is kuttrolf. They were a traditional Danish design made at Kastrup and Holmegaard, a practical design which can easily be held with one hand. These were probably made in the 1960s. We have previously listed another version of this - Inebriated king - HOLMEGAARD pinched, leaning 'kuttrolf' decanter with crown stopper. Our reference: 1939 Height: 33cm with stopper (13.5 inches) Width: 11cm Weight: 1.2kg Condition: a few less than mm unintended bubbles, a 1cm scratch and three small scuffs underneath Our reference: 1917 Height: 27cm with stopper (10.5 inches) Width: 10cm Weight: 0.7kg Condition: two unintended bubbles (largest 4mm, close to the base) Our reference: 1918 Height: 20cm with stopper (8 inches) Width: 7cm Weight: 0.3kg Condition: two small flecks underneath the stopper, an unpolished mark underneath Our reference: 1919 Height: 15cm with stopper (6 inches) Width: 5cm Weight: 0.1kg Condition: a mm fleabite underneath the stopper, small scuff to the base Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:47:19 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1939 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2775 The last photos show this with a brown vase in the same design. The listing for the brown piece includes a video, if you're interested. The design is shown in the 1962/63 Kosta catalogue. Height: 14 cm (5.5 inches) Width: 6 cm Weight: 360 g Engraved "Kosta LH 1657/21" to the base Condition: very light wear to the base, a few scuffs and scratches (largest 2mm), a couple of less than 0.5mm unintended bubbles. Some faint watermarks to the interior. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:53:46 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2775 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2703 I haven't listed an FM Ronneby figurine for some time. This fish remedies that omission. Height: 17 cm (6.75 inches) Width: 14 cm Weight: 590g Condition: expected wear to the base aside from two handfuls of less than 0.5mm fleabites and some burst bubbles from manufacture, a few small scratches elsewhere (longest 2mm) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:09:07 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2703 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2422 This is the third piece of a set. The other two are listed at Palmqvist for Orrefors 1954 opalescent Selena bowl and Palmqvist opalescent Selena vase for Orrefors. Click these links for more information on the Selena series. Height: 18 cm (7.25 inches) Width: 5 cm Weight: 330 g Engraved "Orrefors" to the base Condition: light wear to the base aside from a 0.5mm fleabite to the edge of the base, very faint cloudiness close down near the base, a 0.5 mm unintended bubble, a few scratches elsewhere (longest 5mm) 18cm Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:28:30 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2422 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2900 This is the more expensive (and of course much bigger) option to the 1950s SEA Kosta sea anemone-like glass art object, which I listed recently. This size 'Fantasia' art object is extraordinary. They are very collectable in any size, but in this super-size they are particularly special. We have one customer who has put together a set of these over the years, at least one in every colour Flygsfors made, and this seems to us to be a very clever investment. It's a tribute to Pernilla's packing that she manages to send them safely around the world. (Naturally, we also make sure they are insured.) This design was made from the mid-1950s through to the early 60s. My suspicion is that this size was an innovation from later in this period. This piece is not signed and no longer has a label. Height: 49 cm (20 inches) Width: 25cm Weight: 4.13kg Condition: expected wear to the base aside from two 1mm and one 2mm fleabites, a few scuffs and scratches overall (largest 5mm) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:58:36 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2900 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2896 In the 1970s Monica Backstrom designed a series of eggs with mottled surfaces for Boda, the firm she joined in 1965. This one, with brown on duck egg blue is a particularly attractive colour combination. The vase is in the same colours and they make a very nice set at a bargain price. Boda was part of the Afors Group, along with Afors and Kosta, from the early 1970s. All used the Kosta Boda name from the mid-80s. Backstrom, the wife of Erik Hoglund, another famous glass designer, stil maintains a studio at Boda Glassworks. Vase Height: 18cm (7 inches) Width: 12cm Weight: 640g Condition: light wear to the base Egg Height: 14cm Width: 10cm Weight: 390g Condition: unpolished inner rim of base (see picture) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:25:43 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2896 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2899 It may be sacrilege to say so but I think I prefer this design to that of the more famous (and more expensive) Flysgsfors "Fantasia" design (see for example, Signed 1957 Flygsfors 4-fingered Fantasia glass art object). Both are a sea anemone-like art objects with no practical purpose except to be bizarre and beautiful. Like the Fantasias, this has a number of "fingers", but in the Sea Kosta version each finger has a double tip. Both designs have layers of milk glass which give the coloured layers a pastel effect, and clear crystal bases. We suspect that the Flygsfors version came first, and that the SEA Kosta version is a later variation (in an era when intellectual property laws were less stringently enforced). They are an unusual and creative use of the sommerso technique, in which the coloured layers are "submerged" in clear glass. This piece is unsigned but the design is clearly that of SEA, a Swedish firm based in the town of Kosta. On 50-year-old pieces of glass the sticky labels do not always survive, but when they do, they read "SEA Kosta" and for this reason they are often confused by Internet auction sellers with the more well-known firm of "Kosta" (which was later known as "Kosta Boda", and, just to complicate matters further, ultimately took over SEA). There's also a degree of confusion between the three firms of SEA, DEK, and Ekeberga. DEK was "Dekor Etsning Kosta" (decor etching Kosta). SEA was formed in the 1950s by either a merger or takeover of DEK and Ekeberga. Naturally, it initially continued to make the successful designs of its predecessors. Designs which are sometimes marked SEA can also be found with the DEK or Ekeberga signatures. We have another, larger version of this vase listed at Signed & stickered FA W Johansson finger vase. (Johansson appears to have been primarily a marketer of glass made by various Swedish firms.) The two would display well together. Height: 19cm (7.5 inches) Width: 9cm Weight: 530g Condition: light wear to the base aside from a 1mm and a 2mm fleabites and a 2mm shallow fleck from the rim of the base Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:19:45 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2899 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2907 This was Franck's 'Kanootti' (canoe), designed in 1951, model number KF 233 in violet-blue crystal. It was in production from 1951 to 1968. This one is from 1959. Length: 9cm (3.5 inches) Height: 6.5cm Weight: 310g Engraved 'K Franck Nuutajarvi Notsjo-59' to the base, also glue from original label underneath the base Condition: expected wear to the base, a 2mm fleck to the inner rim a 0.5x1mm very shallow fleck to the interior/inner rim Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:42:23 +1300 http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2907