** MAGNIFICENT & RARE CZECH ART GLASS BOWL/VASE DESIGNED BY ALES VALNER: A UNIQUE COLLECTOR`S ITEM

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Discover the dazzling & magical world of superbly beautiful hand-made Czech art glass from the 1950s to 1990s with this link:

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A VERY HEAVY & LARGE CZECH ART GLASS BOWL / SCULPTURAL OBJECT, DESIGNED BY CONTEMPORARY DESIGNER ALES VALNER

A RARE AND VERY BEAUTIFUL INTERIOR DESIGN/ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT

REFERENCE IN MARK HILL'S LATEST BOOK (2014) ON 20th CENTURY CZECH ART GLASS

A LARGE AND TRULY MAGNIFICENT OBJECT   

- Height : 184 mm

- Diameter : 195 mm

- Weight : 3,235 kg

AN UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A RARE CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS ITEM

* Shipping costs are R150 via Postnet.

* Please do have a look at my other 150+ 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. XKOBUIC5 SW