CZECH ART GLASS VASE: UNIQUE COLLECTOR'S ITEM BY FAMOUS GLASS DESIGNER FRANTISEK VIZNER

A heavy, transparent Skrdlovice Glassworks vase with spiralled internal bubbles, designed by Frantisek Vizner (1936-2011)

Height : 26cm  /  Weight : 2,080kg

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This is truly a unique opportunity to acquire a world-class art glass item designed by Frantisek Vizner.
(It is virtually impossible to obtain examples of his work in South Africa).

This magnificent vase with spiralled internal sparkling bubbles is a rare, hand-made Czech art glass item (and not Italian Murano glass, Orrefors or Lalique studio glass).

'... he has created a series of vessels that are the among the most perfect objects ever made by human hands...' 

(Glass Magazine, curator and critic William Warmus).

In 2012 Frantisek Vizner was ranked amongst the top 10 in the list of the top fifty most influential artists of all times by the Studio Glass movement in the United States (GLASS: Feature in The Urban Glass Art Quaterly titled 'Fifty at Fifty: The artists from the first fifty years of Studio Glass who will remain most relevant for the next fifty years').

Vizner's work is represented in numerous museums, art galleries as well as public and private collections all over the world (including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, Prague; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum, Stockholm; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Musee des Arts Decoratif, Lausanne; Musee des Arts Decoratif, Paris; Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia; etc).

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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.

Below: Vizner with some of his vases and objects in the background.

Regrettably, these beauties sell for around R450,000 to R500,000 each these days!