1960s Bertel Vallien Large Swedish Art Glass Vase by Kosta Boda

Early large and rare are art glass vase / bottle in very good condition with almost no signs of age and use designed by bertel vallien for kosta boda in the 1960s. The free-blown swelling form with crushed glass vase is unsigned but a similar vase can be found pictured: gunnar lindqvist, vallien p. 40. Bertil vallien is one of the few innovators of glass art in the world today. Along with a small number of other artists, he has broken new ground and his work has been particularly well received in the usa, where he exhibits and lectures at the universities on a regular basis; but also in japan and australia (quote: bertilvallien. Nu).