Delightful, heavy red crystal vase. Made between 1950 and 1955 in northern Bohemia, in the area of Jablonec nad Nisou, in one of the many local craft workshops where glass working, glass blowing, handling, carving and decoration have had their heyday since ancient times. Numerous workshops and shops of artists and designers to whom we owe the perpetuation of a delicate and ancient art are still concentrated there. The large vase has a classic, elegant shape and is supported by a round base with a scalloped edge and a star-shaped cut-out at the bottom. An excellent lead crystal was used to make it, which gives the crystal a high refractive index. Thanks to the manual techniques of cutting, grinding and polishing, the surface of the vase creates extraordinary plays of light and reflections. The entire body of the vase features extremely precise handwork with typically Bohemian decorations. The incomparable red colour was obtained by adding compounds containing copper and gold chloride to the crystal during casting (this explains why red crystal objects are more expensive than others). This work is the result of the long experimentation carried out by Bohemian artists in the glassworks at the time, who succeeded in bringing out the full range of colours, obtaining ruby red with gold and copper, blue with cobalt, green with copper or chrome, fluorescent yellow and green with uranium. When crystal, which could be obtained by adding sodium and manganese to glass, was discovered in Italy in 1450, Bohemia, an ancient region in central Europe already renowned for glass production and manufacture, immediately welcomed the novelty, but it was not until 1600 that the Bohemians discovered all the secrets to creating the most beautiful and luminous crystal ever seen: Bohemian crystal was born. Our vase, with its imposing size, tells us these wonderful stories; it is an object with a unique identity with extraordinary plays of light and reflections, full of elegance and refinement. We managed to find it in a small antiques shop in Karlovy Vary, a town in West Bohemia renowned for its spas and ancient glassmaking tradition; together with this rare object, we have acquired other equally beautiful ones that we will soon present in our assortment. The vase is in good condition. It measures 15 cm in diameter, 28 cm in height. For all our shipments we use special packaging materials (custom-made wooden crates, polystyrene, etc.) to ensure maximum protection and safety of the objects.
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