Michael Jopling Art Glass Sculpture, 1986

A large art glass bowl by Michael Bang, of undulating circular, spiralling form, blown in clear glass with two swirls of opaque white and red pigment. Scandinavian, late 20th century. Michael Bang (1942-2013) Current And Advanced Glassmaking Art Michael Bang (1942-2013) was the son of Jacob E. Bang, Holmegaard's first designer. In the 1960s and 1970s, Michael Bang was a designer at the Odense Glass Factory, but moved with his family to Holmegaard in the 1980s when he joined the Holmegaard Glass Factory. Here he managed the design of the mouth-blown lamps in opal-white glass in which the glass factory specialised. Michael Bang was quick-witted, fascinating and fun and able to spellbind an audience when the glass factory organised talks and presentations. Many of his products have now become collector's items. Holmegaard carries his vases and flower pot covers in the MB range (1981), the Mandarin lamp...

American artist Ed Nesteruk (b. 1941) is known for his delicate and brilliantly executed sculptures in glass. This piece shaped like a flattened upside-down teardrop in clear glass a...