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* A DAZZLINGLY BEAUTIFUL CZECH ART GLASS CHRIBSKA VASE DESIGNED BY PROF JOSEF HOSPODKA (1923-1980)
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A LARGE, BEAUTIFUL & HEAVY VENETIAN RED AND ORANGE/AMBER 1970s/1980s CHRIBSKA CZECH ART GLASS VASE, DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO PROF JOSEF MICHAL HOSPODKA (1923-1989).
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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 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 items are becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.
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- Design & production: 1970s/1980s by the Chribska Glass factory and appears in i.a. the late 1980s Chribska export catalogues (scroll down for images)
- Height : around 270 mm
- Width : around 140 x 120 mm
- Weight : 2,870 kg (a heavy and solid item!)
- Excellent condition with very minor age-related signs of wear
- Literature: See attached copies of catalogues and Glass Review at the end.
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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 R80 via SA Post Office (tracked), R140 via Postnet and R180 via courier.
* The item will be packed to withstand an earthquake!
* Please do have a look at my other Czech art glass items on offer.
* New items to be listed on 12 February 2015.
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.
This heavy & solid magnificent item 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)