This LIMITED EDITION Kosta Boda Art Glass piece SOLD through the iNVISeDGE website in 2014 for AU $495. (Approx. USD $380).
Background Info and Provenance
Description written in 2014
A LIMITED EDITION art glass vase by world-renown artist Bertil Vallien for Kosta Boda, Sweden. This piece was released in 1992 and limited to a production run of 500 pieces only. This is likely to be the only one of these in Australia. The production skill of this piece is awe-inspiring and I’d say was the reason it was limited to a small production number. The blue coloured areas are raised and the frosted areas are set back. (The cameo technique could have been used here- I’m not sure.) It has a captivating design- the birds are lost amongst a jumble of shimmering colour. Because the piece is so rare I can’t find any information on it. I love how it has a contrast of jagged lines and hazy indistinct glooms that emerge from the frost like shadows in the night. It’s a highly emotive piece. This is the first Limited Edition Kosta Boda piece I’ve had. Because it was done in 1992 these would show up rarely and being a Bertil Vallien piece the value will be certainly worth watching in the future. Vallien is by far the most internationally celebrated of any Kosta Boda artist past or present. His pieces (and especially his Limited Edition works) are collected the world over. His current limited edition pieces with a production run of 500 average about $AU850 each. In my eyes this 1992 piece should be worth more than that. The piece has the original Kosta Boda label and is also signed to the base (see the photo).
After other home décor has ended up as landfill, this hand-made piece will be passed onto a new generation- a symbol that when something has been done well its appeal never wavers. When you buy vintage (and second-hand items) there’s satisfaction in knowing there’s no better way of reducing your carbon footprint. This is an investment for yourself, your family and our environment.
The story of Kosta Boda as told in the 1986 publication, “The Kosta Boda Book of Glass”.
If you have no interest in reading the story of Kosta Boda as a company please skip to the next section thank you.
In an age of fast food, fast cars, and fast living, there is still something that is made slowly and carefully. The glass of Kosta Boda. Here teams of five men still gather to make one wine glass. Artists still wander through the workrooms, picking up a vase here, a bowl there, checking the purity of colour, the cleaness of an edge. And the mould maker still carves his precise shapes from a log he’s just brushed the snow from. In the small villages of Kosta Boda, Johansfors and Afors, there is little to distract one from the glass. Aside from the glassworks, a restaurant, and a few stores, there is nothing here but fir and birch trees. Forests that attracted the early glassmakers in the 1740’s, when Kosta Boda began. They found everything they needed here to perfect their magic- wood, fire and solitude.
Originally, Kosta Boda made window glass. Soon though, they were blowing crystal bowls, vases, stemware. The kind of pieces that can be found today in museums in London, the Cooper-Hewitt in New York and the Royal Palace in Stockholm.
Yet each piece is born in the same place, deep in the woods of Sweden. It is here that beautiful ideas are spun into molten glass.
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