A RARE & SOUGHT-AFTER SCULPTURAL VASE BY FRANTISEK VIZNER (1936-2011): A COLLECTOR`S ITEM FROM 1971!

A SCULPTURAL 'TOFFEE VASE' DESIGNED BY WORLD-CLASS GLASS MASTER FRANTISEK VIZNER (1936-2011) IN 1971

A HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER DESIGN/ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT, MADE BY SKRDLOVICE GLASSWORKS

REPRODUCED ON PAGE 85 OF MARK HILL'S BOOK (2014) ON 20th CENTURY CZECH ART GLASS

Dimensions : 105 x 153 mm / Weight : 1,241 kg / Design number : 7117

AN UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A RARE WORLD-CLASS ART GLASS ITEM DESIGNED BY FRANTISEK VIZNER

'... he has created a series of vessels that are among the most perfect objects ever made by human hands...' (Glass Magazine, curator and critic William Warmus)

In 2012 Frantisek Vizner was ranked amongst the top 10 in the list of the top fifty most influential artists of all times by the Studio Glass movement in the United States (GLASS: Feature in The Urban Glass Art Quaterly titled 'Fifty at Fifty: The artists from the first fifty years of Studio Glass who will remain most relevant for the next fifty years').

Vizner's work is represented in numerous museums, art galleries as well as public and private collections all over the world (including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, Prague; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum, Stockholm; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Musee des Arts Decoratif, Lausanne; Musee des Arts Decoratif, Paris; Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia; etc)

* Shipping fee : R120 via Postnet (South Africa only).

* The item will be packed to withstand an earthquake!

* Please do have a look at my other Czech & Murano art glass items on offer : simply click on 'All Items' (top right of this screen).

Along with Scandinavia and Italy, Czechoslovakia was one of the leading European producers and exporters of glass across the world during the second half of the 20th Century. The 1950s-70s saw a renaissance in Czech glass design that confirmed and re-established the country's global reputation in this area.

From behind the Iron Curtain, highly talented and exceptionally skilled designers pushed the boundaries of 20th century glass design and produced unique art glass masterpieces that went on to inspire visually stunning ranges and exquisite works of art in sparkling glass. Exported and sold around the world as art glass for the home, these modern and vibrantly coloured designs became enormously successful.

During the last five years or so international tastes and fashions have brought Czech post war art glass very much into vogue once again and hence the renewed appreciation of the glass hierarchy and the public alike. Czech art glass has rapidly been becoming the latest highly sought after additions to prized art glass collections all over the world.

* This magnificent item is original and rare, hand-made Czech art glass (and not Italian Murano, Daum, Kosta Boda, Orrefors, Flygsfors, Swarovski, Leerdam, Val St Lambert, Whitefriars or Lalique studio glass). I personally handpicked & imported this beauty for my own collection from the Czech Republic.

* Appreciation and acknowledgement to Messrs Mark Hill, Jindrich Parik and the Vychodoceske Museum for their invaluable archival and reference material. XKOBUI3