Signed 1950s Vicke Lindstrand Kosta green 'Dark Magic' vase

BUYER COMMENT (when buying this piece and Signed and labelled purple sommerso Lindstrand vase for Kosta): 'My previous purchase arrived in perfect condition and was even better in real life!'

This was in the 1959 Kosta catalogue, but only in the more blue-gray colour that people are more familiar with.  The green is a later innovation, and rarer.  The last photo shows this piece with a smaller blue-gray example (which I haven't listed yet).  These pieces were blown with a crooked glass-blowing pipe.  This pipe was invented by master blower Bengt Heintze at Kosta to blow Lindstrand's off-centre pieces.  Bengt (who blew all Lindstrand's pieces except for glasses) found that this was a difficult challenge with a normal pipe, but easy with a bent pipe which allow oblique blowing.  See Master Bengt: The Glass Legend of Sweden by Hans-Olaf Lundmark.

Height: 17 cm (6.75 inches)
Width: 13 cm 95 inches)
Weight: 1665 g
Engraved "Kosta LH 1606" to the base
Condition: expected wear and a handful of 0.5mm and less fleabites to the base, quite a lot of less than 0.5mm unintended bubbles, a 2x3mm mark from manufacture to the interior, a few small scratches to the exterior (longest 3mm), a 3.7 cm long scratch to the interior

Our Reference: 2647

This item has sold for US $240.00

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