* A MAGNIFICENT PEACH-COLOURED AND COBALT BLUE CZECH ART GLASS MSTISOV / MOSER VASE

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A DAZZLING, MAGNIFICENT PEACH-COLOURED AND COBALT BLUE CZECH ART GLASS VASE, PROBABLY MADE BY MSTISOV OR MOSER IN THE LATE 1970s OR EARLY 1980s

A 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!!

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.

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- Design & production: Probably 1970s/1980s by either the Mstisov or Moser Glass factories

- Height : around 180 mm

- Weight : 1,380 kg

- Excellent vintage condition with the usual age-related signs of wear and surface scratches on the base

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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), R160 via Postnet and R225 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.

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 sourced this beauty from the Czech Republic.

* Appreciation and acknowledgement to Messrs Mark Hill and Jindrich Parik for their invaluable archival and reference material.