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Lot 129
*Rick Ayotte 1999 holiday bouquet paperweight, with
yellow and white flowers, and red holly berries. Signed and dated.
Diameter 3 3/4". $900-1200 |
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Lot 130
Rick Ayotte 1978 miniature male cardinal paperweight.
A bright red cardinal, perches jauntily on a branch in clear
crystal. Signed and dated. Limited edition of 50. "This
was the first edition I produced. Even though I'd already been
working as a lampworker for fifteen years, it felt like starting
over. The piece was very well received." -Ayotte, Songs
Without Words: The Art of the Paperweight, Rick Ayotte.
Diameter 2 1/8". $600-800 |
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Lot 131
*Rick Ayotte 1997 White Mountain bouquet paperweight,
with red and white tigerlilies. Limited edition of 35. Signed
and dated. "The White Mountain National Forest was established
in 1911. Before establishment of the National Forest, the land
had been ravaged by uncontrolled logging and the fires which
raged across the denuded landscape. From the first 7,000 acres
of land purchased in Benton, New Hampshire, the Forest has grown
to almost 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and western Maine."
-USDA online Forest Service (www.fs.fed.us).
Diameter 3 5/8". $800-1200 |
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Lot 132
*Rick Ayotte 1981 Paragrine Falcon paperweight, the
bird is posed on a leafy branch, with fine detail on the wingbars
and tail feathers, and an intense, focused expression appropriate
for this bird of prey. Signed and dated. Limited edition of 50.
Diameter 2 5/8". $700-900 |
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Lot 133
*Rick Ayotte 1997 "Mother Nature" paperweight,
featuring a chipmunk with acorn about to feed its young which
is hiding beneath an old log, among fall leaves, mushrooms, pinecones,
wild arum flowers and blue forget-me-nots. So-called the chipmunk
as its call is a series of high-pitched chipping notes. Signed
and dated. Artist proof.
Diameter 4". $900-1500 |
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Lot 134
*Rick Ayotte 1983 ovenbird paperweight, the tiny avian
hops over loose fall foliage, marigold leaves and red berries.
Limited edition of 50. Signed and dated. "It took me
many hours of searching to come across an ovenbird nest, which
are located on the ground and shaped much like a Dutch oven."
-Ayotte, Songs Without Words, The Art of the Paperweight: Rick
Ayotte.
Diameter 3". $700-1200 |