Price: 295.000000 GBP This complex piece was produced by the famous Pauly & C. (Compagnia Venezia Murano) for sale in their showrooms just off St Mark’s Square in Venice. Examples from the range are hard to find, with some being marked ‘Pauly Venezia’ on the base. The design bears similarities to some ranges by Ercole […]

Price: 180.000000 GBP The ‘Rhapsody’ range has become a classic of postwar Czech glass design. Devised in 1956 by the talented František Zemek (1913-60), it initially came with coloured knobbles melted into the body. In 1960, the range was refreshed and the coloured knobbles were changed to applied straps. This innovative and highly successful range […]

Price: 235.000000 GBP This is a superb, but so far highly under-rated, design by two Czech woman designers – Márie Stáhliková and Milena Velíšková. Both were influenced by period designs produced on Murano and in Scandinavia, meaning that their work tends to be curving, asymmetric and organic in form, cased, and often vividly coloured. They […]

Price: 75.000000 GBP You really don’t see these very often – at all. These knobbly forms were never shown in any Caithness Glass catalogues and were not officially part of the ‘Oban’ range designed by Charles Orr around 1969. They were most likely to have been an experimental range produced in response to the popular […]

Price: 45.000000 GBP Ceramano arguably produced some of the most inventive and appealing glaze and pattern combinations (or ‘decors’) in West German ceramic design from the 1950s-70s. Designed by Hanns Welling in 1960, ‘Agina’ is from a series of decors inspired by Classical Greek, Persian or Egyptian art. Between two bands of geometric motifs is […]

Price: 145.000000 GBP Some things just make you smile. And some evoke a bygone age. This delightful pair of colourful enamelled glass dishes does both. Imagine the Art Deco parties of the ‘Jazz Age’ that these dishes must have seen! Everything about the design screams Art Deco, from the geometric forms that may be stylised […]

Price: 395.000000 GBP The sparkle of Murano glass is celebrated across the world. And few examples sparkle and scintillate as much as this Art Deco vase. A vibrant, rich green body is embellished with a series of diagonal internal air bubbles, known as a bolle, and a myriad of wavy lines of gold powder, known […]

Price: 120.000000 GBP The idiosyncratic design has no clear precedent and is typical of the inventive mind of the celebrated Czech glass designer and glass cutter Karel Wünsch (1932-2020). When the glass was still molten, areas of the the flared rim were cut and pulled up to create the characteristic dual horns. The base of […]

Price: 145.000000 GBP A quirky vase that delivers more the more you look at it. White isn’t a common colour for glass, especially during the 1970s. Here, a gather of barely translucent white glass was gathered and cased in colourless glass. Abstract sprays of long, flat and thin filaments of metal were then applied to […]

Price: 75.000000 GBP Shapely and with shades of Lucie Rie about the form – and with flowers! The sculptural form of this vase shows Hamer’s skill at the wheel, from the subtle collars to the foot, and the wide asymmetric rim with its pleasingly cut shape. The pattern of pendulous multicoloured flowers was incised into […]

Price: 275.000000 GBP The names of Bitossi and their designer Aldo Londi are synonymous with mid-century modern Italian ceramics. Joining in 1946, and retiring in 1976, he produced thousands of designs that were sold across the world. Although ‘Rimini Blu’ (1960) is his best–known, ‘Liberty’ is not far behind it. Designed in 1957 and produced […]

Price: 225.000000 GBP This bold and modern ball vase could certainly be described as ‘eye-catching’. The spherical body is moulded with circular gently-rounded stepped rings and glazed in graduated blue in two areas, placed diagonally near the top and bottom. The outermost and innermost rings are outlined in black and at the centre of each […]