* MAGNIFICENT, RARE BLUE AND YELLOW CZECH ART GLASS BOWL DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO PROF VLADIMIR KOPECKY

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A ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT AND RARE COBALT BLUE AND YELLOW 1970s/1980s CZECH ART GLASS BOWL, DESIGNED ATTRIBUTED TO PROF VALIDIMIR KOPECKY (1931-) FOR SKRDLOVICE GLASSWORKS

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!

With armies of collectors internationally now snapping up 20th Century Czech art glass, these high quality items with their groundbreaking, innovative designs are becoming both harder to find and more collectable by the day.

- Design & production: I imported this beauty from Germany many moons ago and it was sold to me as a hand-made item designed by Prof Vladimir Kopecky (1931-) for Skrdlovice Glassworks. I am regrettably unable to verify this information as detailed information on individual Czech glass items from the socialist period is quite limited and most certainly not readily available.

Whatever the case may be, this is an absolutely stunning item in its own right and makes a powerful interior décor statement in any environment.

- Diameter : around 335 mm (widest)

- Weight : 1,750 kg

- Absolutely excellent vintage condition with minimal sings of age-related wear on the base

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PROFILE

Vladimir Kopecky (1931-) belongs to the eldest generation of Czech Contemporary artists. He is famous for his monumental stained glass works in particular.

Some of his group exhibitions include:
2011 Contemporary Glass, Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Fundamenty & Sedimenty/ Vzpoura hracek 2011, Galerie hl. m. Prahy, Mestska knihovna, Praha
2010 Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Global Art Glass – Trienal, Borgholm Castle, Sweden
1998  Foir d´Art Strassbourg ´98, Strassbourg, France
1998 Glass and Space, Czech museum of arts, The Blafl Madone House, Prague, Czech Republic
1996 Form – Light – Glass, American Craft Museum, New York, USA
1992 Situation, Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
1992 Czechoslovak Pavilon, EXPO ´92, Sevilla, Spain
1991 Nomades del Vidre, Barcelona, Spain
1989 Verres de Boheme 1400 – 1989, Musée des Arts decoratifs Paris, France
1989 Art 89 – Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
1988 World Glass Now, Hokkaido MOMA, Sapporo, Japan
1984 Glass´84 in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
1967 Czechoslovak Pavilon, EXPO ´67, Montreal, Canada
1964 Czechoslovakia and Italy, Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen´s Council, New York, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo/Ohaio, USA
1958 Czechoslovak Pavilion, EXPO ´58, Brussels, Belgium
1957 11th Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy

Prizes and Awards

1958 EXPO ´58, Brussels, Belgium - Golden Medal
1984 Glass in Japan ´84, Tokyo, Japan - The Bridgestone Museum Prize 

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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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* A heavy item : shipping costs are R100 via SA Post Office (tracked), R200 via Postnet or R250 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 : simply click on 'Bookfinder' (top right of this screen).

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. With retirement now looming on the horizon, this beauty is in need of a new home.

* Appreciation and acknowledgement to Messrs Mark Hill and Jindrich Parik for their invaluable archival and reference material.1