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Material: Crystal
Kosta Boda Non Stop Black Vase
By Anna Ehrner
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
The Non Stop vase has a wrap-around black pattern that results in a graphic, vibrant finish. Let’s not ever stop loving great design. Either leave it be or fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$650 / item
Bohemian
Pique Fleurs
Vase, Bright Green Crystal Cut-to-Clear, with Grille
By Bohemia
Located in Verviers, BE
Vibrant, meadow-green cased-crystal glass vase in the Bohemian style with cut-to-clear decoration of palms and trellis. This design for vases is often called 'Pique fleurs' or 'rose-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Vase
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze vase. This vase is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand-grounded crystal. On request to customer can modificate the col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Kosta Boda Pagod Vase Red Small
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
A technique called underlay is used to create multiple layers of glass in Pagod from Kosta Boda. The clear glass forms a shell over the colored glass, allowing its inner beauty to sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$175 / item
Kosta Boda Limelight Low Vase Clear
By Göran Wärff
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
The low Limelight vase has a collar that perfectly frames and highlights any bouquet, and the shape of the vase makes it ideal for top-heavy flowers. Like all the items in the Limeli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$125 / item
Baccarat Style Hand Cut Crystal Flower Vase
Located in Miami, FL
Baccarat Style Hand Cut Crystal Flower Vase
This exquisite crystal flower vase showcases exceptional craftsmanship, made from high-quality cry...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Hand Blown Moser Crystal Cobalt Blue Vase W/ Gold Overlay
Engraved Cherubs
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This vase is a showstopper- rich, hand blown cobalt blue crystal is embellished with wheel cut engraving and highlighted in gold. The fanciful decoration circles the circumference of...
Category
1910s Czech Art Nouveau Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Val Saint Lambert Signed Sculpted Crystal Core Vase Belgium
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert, Signed Sculpted Crystal core Vase , Belgium.
Heavy Val Saint Lambert crystal vase catalogued in the 1950s.
The central amethyst color (a traditional favorite for...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Tapio Wirkkala Large Pinja Crystal Vase for Iittala Finland, Scandinavian Modern
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Beautiful Pinja vase designed by Tapio Wirkkala and made in Finland by Iittala. This heavy and high quality crystal vase is hand blown with a flat and polished asymmetrical rim and ...
Category
1980s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$185 Sale Price / item
67% Off
Kosta Boda Pagod Vase Clear Small
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
A technique called underlay is used to create multiple layers of glass in Pagod from Kosta Boda. The clear glass forms a shell over the colored glass, allowing its inner beauty to sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$175 / item
Hand Cut Lead Crystal Vase by Caesar Crystal Bohemiae Co. Czech Republic
Located in Stamford, CT
Stunning cobalt blue hand cut lead crystal vase created as a work of art by the hands of the finest Czech glass workers. The Caesar Crystal Company in the Czech Republic has been sel...
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Standard I Cinesi Vase in White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
By putting three layers of glass on one another in three distinct moments colored opaque glass, clear crystal and colored crystal one achieves the amazing effect of a material that plays with the light and changes thickness, consistency and chromatic effect.
Two-colored objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Small Swedish Crystal Vase by Strombergshyttan
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Vintage handcrafted oval shaped aqua blue crystal vase by Strombergshyttan. Signed on bottom.
Artist: Asta Stromberg
Manufacturer: Strombergshyttan
Origin: Sweden
Year: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Crackle Clear Vase
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
Crackle and thunder – a magical wonder! At Kosta Boda, we marvel at beautifully preserved cracks in glass. The clear glass vase from the Crackle collection has an expressive, sculptu...
Category
2010s Swedish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$1,750 / item
Set of 2 Baccarat Geometric Vases Cobalt Blue Clear Crystal Glass, France
By Baccarat
Located in Rijssen, NL
A crystal masterpiece of beautiful proportions by Thomas Bastide, this vase crystallize the extraordinary know-how of the Baccarat craftsmen. The geometric cuts and vibrant blue colo...
Category
1990s French Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Kosta Boda Kappa Vase Large
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
Kappa Circular from Kosta Boda is made of 100 percent circular glass from Kosta Glassworks in Sweden. Small bubbles and color variations often appear in the process of transforming c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$400 / item
Mid-Century Cut Crystal Trumpet Vase with Geometric Star and Floral Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a console or buffet with this elegant crystal trumpet vase with scalloped rim. Crafted in France, circa 1960 and round in shape, the larg...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Crystal Decanter faceted silver mount with 8 Schot Glasses 1950s
Located in Verviers, BE
Baccarat Decanter, With 8 shot glasses 1950s.
Beautiful circular crystal decanter Silver Mount and Faceted, deeply and evenly cut,
Origin: France in excellent condition.
There was...
Category
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Kosta Boda Orchid Vase High
By Göran Wärff
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
In his close relationship with nature, the legendary glass artist Göran Wärff was inspired to create a distinctively shaped art object in vibrant colors, which resulted in Orchid. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$900 / item
Art Deco Baccarat Twin-Handled Glass or Crystal Vase
By Baccarat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A hard-to-find Baccarat two-handled Art Deco vase.
Of slender form with hollow integral handles to each side.
The base bears acid-etched Baccarat factory mark.
Measures: He...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Kosta Boda Crackle Circular Vase Tall
Located in Wilkes Barre, PA
Crackle and thunder – a magical wonder! At Kosta Boda, we marvel at beautifully preserved cracks in glass. The vase in circular glass from the Crackle collection has an expressive, s...
Category
2010s Swedish Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Petite Cupid Crystal Vase
By Kosta Boda
Located in New York, NY
In classical mythology, Cupid is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the war god...
Category
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Val Saint Lambert Crystal Vase Cut to Clear Belgium 1950s
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert crystal vase cut to clear,
Beautiful Val Saint Lambert circular crystal vase, hand-cut-to-clear,
the glass is thick, deeply and evenly cut,
Origin: Belgium in exc...
Category
1950s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Hand Cut Crystal Green Vase by Caesar Crystal Bohemiae Co. Czech, Republic
Located in Stamford, CT
Stunning hand cut lead crystal vase created as a work of art by the hands of the finest Czech glass workers. The Caesar Crystal Company in the Czech Republic has been selling hand cu...
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Ellisse Vase in White, Grey and Black by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta Glasbruk 1950s Tall Double hole Glass Vase
1483
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
A tall rare double holed clear crystal glass vase designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta Glasbruk (which eventually became Kosta Boda), Sweden, circa 1959. Vicke Lindstrand is consid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Neoclassical Style Italian Crystal Vase With Festoon Engravings
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born of the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent. Finally, polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two craftsmen, inventiveness that transforms crystal into a material reality of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All objects in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large oval crystal vase...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Ruby Red Hand Cut Lead Crystal Vase by Caesar Crystal Bohemiae Co.Czech Republic
Located in Stamford, CT
Stunning ruby red hand cut lead crystal vase created as a work of art by the hands of the finest Czech glass workers. The Caesar Crystal Company in the Czech Republic has been sellin...
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Antique Art Nouveau Clear Cut Crystal Vase with Floral Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This tall cut crystal antique vase has no maker's marks but presumed to have been made in England in circa 1900 in the period Art Nouveau style. The vase stands over a foot tall and ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Antique Cut Crystal Vase
Located in New York, NY
Antique cut crystal vase. Irish cut crystal footed vase with diapered cut rolled lip and faceted body, Ireland, mid-19th century.
Dimension: ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Irish Antique Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Pair of Medicis Style Crystal Vases
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This very nice and decorative pair of Medicis style vases is made of crystal. This is a French work. Circa 1900
Category
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Antique Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$1,723 Sale Price
26% Off
Pair of Fry "Foval" Opalescent Handblown Vases with Applied Delft Blue Handles
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This is an unusual pair of Fry handblown vases in the opalescent glass that was described as "translucent pearl". Fry Glass Company gave the name "FOVAL" to their line of art glass, ...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Crystal Vase by Anatole Riecke, Mid Century, La Coupole Restaurant Paris
By A. Riecke
Located in Crespières, FR
French Crystal vase by Anatole Riecke – 1944, La Coupole Restaurant, Paris.
This vase is a creation of the artist Anatole Riecke, of Russian origin, who lived in Paris at the beginn...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Black Hand Cut Lead Crystal Vase by Caesar Crystal Bohemiae Co. Czech Republic
Located in Stamford, CT
Stunning black hand cut lead crystal vase created as a work of art by the hands of the finest Czech glass workers. The Caesar Crystal Company in the Czech Republic has been selling h...
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Val Saint Lambert, Label Sculpted Crystal Vase with Amethyst Core, Belgium
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert, Label sculpted crystal vase with amethyst core, Belgium.
Heavy Val Saint Lambert crystal vase catalogued in the 1950s.
The central amethyst color (a traditional f...
Category
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Val Saint Lambert Crystal Vase Cut to Clear, 1950s
Located in Verviers, BE
Val Saint Lambert crystal vase cut to clear, 1950s
Beautiful Val Saint Lambert circular crystal vase, hand-cut-to-clear,
the glass is thick, deeply and evenly cut,
Origin: Belg...
Category
1950s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Wonderful Val Saint Lambert Amethyst Diamond Overlay Glass Crystal Kipling Vase
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful Val Saint Lambert amethyst diamond overlay art glass / crystal Kipling large vase unsigned.
Measures: 11 1/2" high x 8" wide.
Category
20th Century Belgian Belle Époque Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Rare Early 1900s Large Handcut Heavy Etched Diamond Cut Cranberry Crystal Vase
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
The Following Item we are offering is a Rare Antique Early 1900s Lovely HEAVY HANDCUT Cranberry Hand Cut Large Bohemian Crystal Vase. Vase is Finely Detailed Throughout in a Magnific...
Category
20th Century French Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$990 Sale Price
72% Off
1970
s careved glass showing a young woman watching stars signed Orrefors
By Orrefors
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
Nice Crystal vase showing a young woman watching stars
Circa 1970's
By Orrefors
Sweden
Category
1970s Swedish Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Val Saint Lambert Cobalt Blue Cut To Clear Crystal Vase Birds
Flowers
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This Val Saint Lambert vase is a rare example of a pattern that was only used for goblets and most likely a custom order. It is hand blown crystal with cobalt blue overlay cut to cle...
Category
1930s Belgian Aesthetic Movement Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Crystal Glass Vase Sculpture by Mario Cioni
C
By Mario Cioni
Located in Palermo, PA
Since 1958, Mario Cioni has been well known in Italy for creating crystal with skilled experience. This art glass vase is a true eye-catcher. The vase is signed in the glass on the f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Vintage Transparent Crystal Pitcher Attr. to Baccarat
By Baccarat
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
1960s.
This high-quality pitcher / vase is made in transparent crystal.
It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered as in perfect o...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$448 Sale Price / item
42% Off
Country Style Crystal Vase Easter Decor Yellow Glass Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Hand blown crystal vase in yellow glass with a antique country style Easter design. Hand carved by Bavarian glass artists . A rich garland of trees and ...
Category
2010s German Country Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Mid Century Modern Clear Crystal Vase by Goran Warff for Kosta Boda, Finland
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
Organic shaped clear crystal vase by Goran Warff for Kosta Boda, Finland, signed.
Category
1960s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Black Forest Vase Green Crystal with Hunting Decor Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Handblown crystal vase in green glass with hand-edged hunting scene in the style of black forest. The decor is an antique decor with deers, trees and bambis all around. Completely ha...
Category
2010s German Black Forest Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Hand Cut Lead Crystal Purple Vase by Caesar Crystal Bohemiae Co. Czech Republic
Located in Stamford, CT
Stunning hand cut amethyst, purple lead crystal vase created as a work of art by the hands of the finest Czech glass workers. The Caesar Crystal Company in the Czech Republic has bee...
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Mid-Century Crystal Glass Vase, 1950
s
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of crystal glass
Re-polished
Original condition.
Category
1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Vase from the Escalier de Cristal, Gilt Bronze Mounting, 19th century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Crystal vase decorated with a gilded bronze dragon from the Maison de Cristal, Napoleon III period, 1880.
H: 17cm, D: 5.75cm
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Lalique Crystal Champs-Elysees Bowl Vase
By Marc Lalique
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Lalique Crystal Champs- Elysses medium size oval bowl vase. It depicts multiple horse chestnut leaves arranged around a circular center base. Below the base, it is the acid...
Category
20th Century French Art Nouveau Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRONZE CUT CRYSTAL VASES. 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
A PAIR OF RUSSIAN BRONZE CUT CRYSTAL VASES. 19TH C
A PAIR OF 19th C. RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED (Bronze) CUT CRYSTAL VASES. H 33 cm
Category
19th Century Russian Baroque Antique Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Vintage Orrefors Sweden Crystal Girl Wishing on the Moon Hand Etched Vase Signed
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Vintage Orrefors Sweden Crystal Girl Wishing on the Moon Hand Etched Vase Signed
Special Vase-very small chip on top edge, other than that excellent condition. One side has an etch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
set of 2 Vintage Hand Blown Crystal Glass Vase by Joska, Germany, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Glass vase
Producer:
Joska Waldglashütte Bodenmais, Germany
Decade:
1970s
Description:
Original super rare vintage vase set produced by Joska Wal...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Set of Three Hand Blown Crystal Glass Vases Made by Alfred Taube, Germany, 1960s
By Alfred Taube
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Set of three crystal vases
Producer:
Alfred Taube Kristallglasfabrik, Germany
Decade:
1960s
These original vintage vases was produced in the 1960s in Germany. It is made of hand blown crystal glass...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Vintage Swedish Blue Crystal Vase by Asta Strömberg for Strömbergshyttan, 1950.
Located in Asaa, DK
Vintage Swedish Blue Crystal Vase by Asta Strömberg for Strömbergshyttan, 1950.
Large and heavy glass art in thick silver-blue tinted glass with etched motif of a tree with birds.
E...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
RARE 1900s Large Handcut Heavy Etched Diamond Cut Amethyst Crystal Basket
Located in New York, NY
The Following Item we are offering is a Rare Antique Lovely HEAVY HANDCUT Amethyst Hand Cut Crystal Glass Basket. Basket is Finely Detailed Thro...
Category
20th Century French Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$1,000 Sale Price
60% Off
French Cut Crystal Tall Covered Decorative Piece / Urn
Located in Tarry Town, NY
French cut crystal tall covered decorative piece / urn. The piece features and exterior cut crystal design details resting on a round form pedestal base. The piece is in great condit...
Category
Late 20th Century French Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Florentine Renaissance Style Huge Italian Cut And Ground Crystal Medici Vase
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Huge and monumental Florentine Renaissance-style vase...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Renaissance Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Rare Early 1900s Large Handcut Heavy Etched Diamond Cut Amethyst Crystal Vase
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
The Following Item we are offering is a Rare Antique Early 1900s Lovely HEAVY HANDCUT Amethyst Hand Cut Large Bohemian Crystal Vase. Vase is Finely Detailed Throughout in a Magnifice...
Category
20th Century French Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
$1,200 Sale Price
73% Off
Neoclassical Style Large Italian Crystal Vase with 18th Century Engravings
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase with base; the decorations, graceful and delicate, are in Neoclassical style. The object is "one-of-a-kind" signed by the Master; it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1981 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving, and polishing) we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase found in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the 16th-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
Baroque Style Large Italian Crystal Vase With Grotesque Engravings
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase; the decorations, in baroque style represent a series of "grotesques" The object is "a unique piece" signed by the Master, it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1983 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving and polishing) that we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase present in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the sixteenth-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Crystal Vases
Materials
Crystal
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