Vintage Svoboda Art Glass Paperweight

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For sale is a 3" art glass crystal globe handmade by Karlov Svoboda. It features twisted orange and yellow strands … Read more For sale is a 3" art glass crystal globe handmade by Karlov Svoboda. It features twisted orange and yellow strands with included bubbles. It includes the Svoboda label and is in good condition. There are some scratches on the bottom and a price label indicating it cost $80 over forty years ago.

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Jaroslav Svoboda is a highly celebrated Czech glass artist and designer born in 1938. In 1990, he established his private glassworks studio, Glassworks Svoboda, located in the small village of Karlov in the Czech Republic. Art glass paperweights produced at the Svoboda Karlov studio are known for their striking late-20th-century postmodern designs, weightiness, and exceptional clear crystal.

One of the studio's hallmarks is capturing perfectly suspended, deliberate air bubbles inside clear or colored crystal domes. These often feature a deep cobalt blue or green center where the light dynamically refracts Postmodern Geometric Imbeds: Many iconic 1980s and 1990s pieces feature abstract, floating geometric designs—such as primary-colored triangles or neon zig-zag ribbons—reminiscent of the kinetic style of Alexander Calder. See less