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intial bids:
October 13, 2000

"In 1988 Jim...moved the family to Midway, Kentucky, and set up a studio there. By 1991 Jim had perfected his art... (H)e introduced Indian pottery, lizards and Southwest desert vegetation into his designs... As an artist and a paperweight maker, Jim has been challenged to bring realism and dimension to his glass. He seeks to emphasize a departure from traditional designs and to bring paperweights and paperweight collectors into a new era."
-The Kaplan family, "Jim Donofrio: From Realism to Fantasy," Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors' Association, Inc., 1995

Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 138 Jim Donofrio pair of geese paperweight with two umber winged birds in flight over a translucent blue-green lake; signed/dated 1998. Diameter 3 3/8". Estimate: $1400 - 1600
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 139 Jim Donofrio brown, black and white goose paperweight. The bird in full wing-span flight over a dark blue sea with white caps; signed and dated 1997. Diameter 3 3/8". Estimate: 1000 - 1400
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 140 Jim Donofrio compound paperweight depicting Icarus, wearing his fragile wings and flying over an eagle. They both soar above white clouds, high over the ocean; signed/dated 1998. Diameter 3 7/16". Estimate: $1400 - 1600
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 141 Jim Donofrio "Bronco Buster" paperweight with a cowboy riding a high-kicking, brown-spotted white horse on sandy ground; signed/dated 1997. Diameter 3 3/8". Estimate: $1000 - 1400
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 142 Jim Donofrio pale green lizard paperweight, the reptile resting near a branch displaying two pink flowers, on convincingly arrid and sandy ground; signed/dated 1991. Diameter 3 1/8". Estimate: $900 - 1200
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 143 Jim Donofrio jockey and racehorse paperweight, with a jockey in bright silks nearly standing on his brown and white-socked horse, pushing to the finish line. They gallop over the green and brown track, under blue sky; signed/dated 1998. Diameter 3 1/2". Estimate: $1000 - 1400