* FAMOUS DESIGN : ENCASED CZECH ART GLASS BOWL DESIGNED BY MILOS PULPITEL FOR HARRACHOV 'HARTIL'

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A COLOURLESS ENCASED HARRACHOV 'HARTIL' BOWL/DISH, DESIGNED BY TECHNICAL DIRECTOR MILOS PULPITEL IN 1955

A BARGAIN AT THIS STARTING PRICE (YOU ARE BASICALLY COVERING THE SHIPPING COSTS ONLY)

Rare hand-made art glass from behind the Iron Curtain : a unique opportunity to own your very own, very beautiful piece of 20th Century European History from the Chribska Glass factory which has been in operation since 1414!!

With armies of collectors internationally now snapping up 20th Century Czech art glass, these high quality items are becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.

>> please scroll down for images, including rare archival material <<

The 'Hartil' range was designed in 1955 by technical director Milos Pulpitel and was inspired by historic Venetian lace glass. After numerous attempts, the use of woven glass fibres was reputedly inspired by a mass of overhead telephone cables. Forms are typically 1950s in their organic and often assymetric nature, and usually have pulled rims (Mark Hill, p.57)

- Design & production: 1955

- Diameter : approx 160 mm

- Weight : 0,960 kg 

- Good vintage condition with the usual expected age-related wear and scuff marks on the base (commensurate very low starting price)

LITERATURE

- Czechoslovak Glass Review : 1956-1

- Hill, Mark. 'Hi Sklo, Lo Sklo' (2008) p.57

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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.

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* Shipping costs are R40 via SA Post Office, R100 via Postnet and R225 via courier.

* The item will be packed to withstand an earthquake!

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PLEASE NOTE

Glass from the mid-20th century is vintage glassware and age related signs of wear such as small fine surface scratches/marks should be expected. The items are hand-made, they may have imperfections such as bubbles, inclusions and lumps within the glass. Tool marks from where they have been shaped and worked in the manufacturing process can often be seen. As this indicates authenticity and forms an inherent part of the character of handmade crystal glass, these are normally not considered as faults by collectors.

* The images provided form part of the description.

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

* Appreciation and acknowledgement to Messrs Mark Hill and Jindrich Parik for their invaluable archival and reference material. [2A]