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* MAGNIFICENT LIME GREEN & COBALT BLUE CZECH ART GLASS CHRIBSKA VASE DESIGNED BY PROF JOSEF HOSPODKA

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Location:
South Africa
Bob Shop ID:
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A MAGNIFICENT LIME GREEN, COBALT BLUE AND TRANSPARENT 1970s/1980s CHRIBSKA CZECH ART GLASS VASE / SCULPTURAL OBJECT WITH WHITE EDGES, DESIGNED BY PROF JOSEF MICHAL HOSPODKA (1923-1989).

AN ABSOLUTE BARGAIN AT THIS STARTING PRICE

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 high quality items are becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.

>> please scroll down for images, including rare archival material <<

>> THIS LISTING IS FOR THE BLUE VASE ON THE RIGHT <<

FOR THE PERFECT PAIR PLEASE ALSO HAVE A LOOK AT THE ROSE PINK AND LIME GREEN MATCHING VASE (LISTING CLOSES AT 20:30 ON 4 MARCH 2015)

- Design & production: Probably 1970s/1980s by the Chribska Glass factory

- Height : around 160 mm

- Width : around 130 mm (widest) & 77 mm (base)

- Weight : 1,300 kg

- Excellent vintage condition

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PROFILE

Prof Josef Hospodka (1923-1989) studied at the Graphic Art School in Prague from 1938 to 1940, followed by the School of Industrial Art in Prague from 1940 to 1944 under Professor Holecek.

From 1945 to 1951 he ran the cutting department at the glass school at Novy Bor, before running the glass-making school at the Chribská glassworks branch until 1958. Became the head designer at Borské Sklo from 1958, and then the director of the Chribská glassworks branch of Borské Sklo froM 1964 to 1970. From 1970 to 1985, headmaster of the glass school at Kamenicky Senov, and after that a designer at the Chribská glassworks until his death.

He is famous for his free blown and off-hand glass designs in particular.

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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, R160 via Postnet and R225 via courier.

* The item will be packed to withstand an earthquake!

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.




* The images provided form part of the description.

* This magnificent vase is an original and rare, hand-made Czech art glass vase (and not Italian Murano, Daum, Kosta Boda, Orrefors, Flygsfors, Swarovski, Leerdam, Val St Lambert or Lalique studio glass). I personally handpicked & 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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