DAZZLINGLY BEAUTIFUL MODERN AMBER CZECH ART GLASS VASE DESIGNED BY JAROSLAV SVOBODA (1938-) IN 1974

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MODERN, HEAVY CZECH MILKY AMBER ART GLASS VASE WITH CONTROLLED BUBBLES DESIGNED BY JAROSLAV SVOBODA (1938-) IN 1974

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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! 

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 items produced by them, their high-quality art glass is becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.

- Designed in 1974 and produced by the Skrdlovice Glass factory

- Weight:  a heavy & solid 3,400 kg !

- Diameter :  approx 135 mm / Height:  approx 155 mm

Literature:

- VKS, r. 1973-1974.

- Vorbova Matusevicova 1978, p.54

- Hartmann, 1989, p.8

- Sypka Auction Number 44 (Brno, Czech Republic) 22 May 2011, lot number 70 (similar example - see image below).

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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.

* The item will be packed to withstand an earthquake!

* Please do have a look at my other Czech art glass items on offer : simply click on 'Bookfinder' (top right of this screen).

* Please note that 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. As 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.

This magnificent vase is a rare, hand-made Czech art glass vase (and not Italian Murano, Kosta Boda, Orrefors, Flygsfors, Leerdam, Val St Lambert, Swarovski or Lalique studio glass). Archival material - with acknowledgement to Mr Jindrich Parik.