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).