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Lot 178
Ronald Hansen miniature piedouche snake paperweight, featuring
a lampworked blue-green serpent, on a broad leaf over an apple-red
ground. With a top window facet.
Diameter 1 7/8". $300-400 |
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Lot 179
*Vandermark/Merritt Glass Studios 1980 acid-cut bee and
flower paperweight, with large iridescent insect, outlined
in relief by a band of leaves and petals of flowers on top. An
unusual collaborative design, with just a suggestion of the amazing
cameo, diatreta, and "insculpture" glasswork to come
from Sautner. Signed on base, "Vandermark Barry Sautner
Doug Merritt Steve Smarr."
Diameter 3". $300-400 |
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Lot 180
Charles Kaziun, Jr. miniature pedestal rose paperweight,
featuring a yellow, coiled-glass rope rose with three leaves,
and three complex canes, over an aventurine and turquoise ground.
Signature gold-foil "K" behind the flower.
Diameter 1 13/16". $400-800 |
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Lot 181
*Charles Kaziun, Jr. blue crocus pedestal paperweight,
with six bright cyan blue petals around vivid yellow stardust
stamens. The flower is cupped inside three green leaves, and
with a "hearty" Kaziun signature cane on the bottom.
Height 3"; Diameter 2 1/4". $1300-1800 |
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Lot 182
*Charles Kaziun, Jr. miniature yellow spider lily pedestal
paperweight, with gold-stone base, the flower with soft-edged
petals, around a red and orange stardust center, on a three-dimensional
stalk. The goldstone is elegantly paired with a transparent amethyst
ground. Signed with a 14k gold-foil "K". See Collectors'
Paperweights Price Guide and Catalogue (1986), p. 89; Glass Paperweights
of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, plate 89, ill. 1593.
Height 1 7/8"; Diameter 1 5/8". $400-600 |
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Lot 183
*Francis Whittemore, Jr. yellow floral paperweight,
over an airy "pink foam" ground. The paper-thin petals
and leaves reveal remarkable lampwork skill, and at the center,
a star mold cane that is nearly as ubiquitous as his Whittemore
signature. Signed "W".
Diameter 2 1/8". $325-450 |
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Lot 184
*Francis Whittemore, Jr. 1974 millefiori nosegay pedestal
paperweight. An assured little design, borrowing from the
Classic-era cane and lampwork methods. The design is tilted to
afford an easy view, and the signature cane is cleverly revealed
below a barely-there blue opaque ground. Etched "29"
on pedestal.
Height 2 9/16"; Diameter of base 1 7/8". $450-550 |
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Lot 185
*Francis Whittemore, Jr. crimp rose pedestal paperweight,
in a dusky rose-pink coloring with bright green leaves, and an
even brighter yellow "W" signature cane. "Not
until 1962, when asked to teach a course in glassblowing, did
Francis Whittemore become interested in the art of paperweight
making. As was the case with other modern glassworkers, he was
particularly intrigued with the Millville rose. ...Whittemore's
roses, although much smaller in size than the early Millville
weights, are as beautiful and perhaps more delicate."
--Catalogue and Price Guide of Collectors' Paperweights (1975).
Height 2 9/16"; Diameter of base 1 15/16". $325-450
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Lot 186
*Francis Whittemore, Jr. double clematis paperweight,
with a layer of petals in blue and another in white, and
a signature cane at the center of a complex cane stamen. "A
(student's) question kindled his interest in paperweights and
his search into the methods of constructing them. ...Mr. Whittemore
drew upon his years of experience as a scientific and ornamental
glassblower to develop tools and techniques of fabrication."
--American Glass Paperweights and Their Makers.
Diameter 2 5/16". $325-450 |