DAZZLINGLY BEAUTIFUL & HEAVY CZECH VASE, DESIGNED, SIGNED & MADE BY ALES VALNER
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ELEGANCE AND SIMPLICITY COMBINED:
A DAZZLING AND HEAVY TRANSPARENT ŠKRDLOVICÉ VASE;
DESIGNED, MADE AND SIGNED BY ALES VALNER IN THE EARLY 2000s
SIGNED!
A RARE AND MOST ELEGANT VASE; A SOPHISTICATED DECOR STATEMENT
Rare hand-made art glass from behind the Iron Curtain : a unique opportunity to acquire your very own, very beautiful piece of 21st Century European History!
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Beránek Glass was nationalised during communist rule in 1948 and became Škrdlovice glassworks. Ownership was returned to the Beránek family in 1992 when it became Beránek Glass again.
The factory closed in 2008 and no longer exists : with armies of collectors internationally now snapping up the magnificent items produced by them, their high quality art glass is becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.
Widely reproduced in literature, these truly magnificent, thick-walled & very solid vases are identified by their internal bubbles in abstract freeform.
- Straw yellow core, encased by transparent glass
- Height : 253 mm
- Diameter : 95 mm
- Weight : a very heavy 3,900 kg
- Probably produced by the Skrdlovice Glass factory shortly before its closure in 2008
- Very good condition
LITERATURE
Bevan-Jones, Robert and Parik, Jindrich (authors); Hill, Mark (general editor). Škrdlovice & Beránek: Legends of Czech Glass, 2014.
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* The item will be packed to withstand an earthquake!
* You are invited to have a look at all my Czech art glass items on offer and discover the dazzling, magical world of sparkling glass!
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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.
The Beranek factory at the time of its closure in 2008
* This magnificent vase is an original and rare, hand-made Czech art glass vase (and not Italian Murano, Kosta Boda, Orrefors, Flygsfors, Swarovski, Leerdam, Val St Lambert or Lalique studio glass). I personally sourced this beauty from the Czech Republic.
* Appreciation and acknowledgement to Messrs Mark Hill and Jindrich Parik for their invaluable archival and reference material. XKOSIGK