** DAZZLING!! HEAVY & THICK-WALLED, AMBER SKRDLOVICE VASE, DESIGNED BY JAN BERANEK (1933-) IN 1980

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ELEGANCE AND SIMPLICITY COMBINED: THIS DESIGN IS A LEGEND

A DAZZLING AND HEAVY, THICK-WALLED AMBER-COLOURED ŠKRDLOVICÉ VASE,

DESIGNED BY THE FAMOUS JAN BERÁNEK (1933-) IN 1980

>> 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 20th Century European History!

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, this truly magnificent, thick-walled & solid vase is identified by its internal bubbles in abstract freeform.

Model : 8044 / Height : 290 mm / Weight : 3,285 kg

Produced by the Skrdlovice Glass factory

Excellent condition with minor surface scratches on its base

A similar vase sold for R8,783 at Strauss & Company in Cape Town (lot 235) on 21 October 2013

Bevan-Jones, Robert and Parik, Jindrich (authors); Hill, Mark (general editor). Škrdlovice & Beránek: Legends of Czech Glass, 2014, 128 pp (reproduced on page 100).

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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.