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A MODERN, HEAVY COBALT BLUE PLATE/CHARGER WITH TRANSPARENT CORE ART GLASS, DESIGNED BY LADISLAV PALECEK FOR SKRDLOVICE GLASS WORKS IN 1981

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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!

>> please scroll down for images, description and postage <<

‘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.

- Model : 8114

 - Diameter : approx 313 mm 
 
 - Weight : A hefty 2,010 kg
 
 - Produced by the Skrdlovice Glass factory
 
 - Vintage glass with the usual age-related indications of wear at the bottom : excellent condition
 
LITERATURE
 
Bevan-Jones, Robert and Parik, Jindrich (authors); Hill, Mark (general editor). Škrdlovice & Beránek: Legends of Czech Glass, 2014, 128 pp (feature section and example of similar reproduced on page 107). Highly recommended reading!
 
Hill, Mark. Hi Sklo Lo Sklo: Post War Czech Glass Design from Masterpiece to Mass-produced, 2008, 148pp
 
* 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.
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
 

* 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. 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 original and rare, hand-made Czech art glass (and not Italian Murano, Daum, Kosta Boda, Orrefors, Flygsfors, Swarovski, Leerdam, Val St Lambert, Whitefriars or Lalique studio glass). I personally sourced and imported 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.

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