A MAGNIFICENT GREEN, BLUE & CLEAR CZECH ART GLASS BOWL, DESIGNED BY LADISLAV PALECEK IN 1977

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A MAGNIFICENT & MOST ELEGANT EMERALD GREEN, BLUE & TRANSPARENT CZECH ART GLASS BOWL

DESIGNED BY LADISLAV PALECEK FOR SKRDLOVICE GLASS WORKS IN 1977

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 with groundbreaking designs is becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.

Pattern 7720 / Length : 325 mm / Width : 210 mm / Weight : 1,239 kg

Vintage glass in very good condition. A few very minor surface scratches commensurate with its age and priced accordingly.

Produced by the Skrdlovice Glass factory.

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

Hill, Mark. Hi Sklo Lo Sklo: Post War Czech Glass Design from Masterpiece to Mass-produced, 2008, 148pp

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.