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 Lot 304
Barry Sautner 1996 "Sammy" goblet, with
the frosted crystal cup carved to resemble a ball of string,
which is held in the paws of a brown cat, carved from tiger's
eye. This playful design, an example of the artist's "sand-carving"
technique, is a testament to his classic aesthetics and deft
skills. Sautner uses miniature tools in a restrictive environment
over long periods of time to produce intricate works of art.
"His love of glass and intuitive understanding of it
turns his sometimes 14-hour workdays into monk-like meditations,
in which he and the glass become one. At this point, it is almost
[like] the creative idea is driven by a spiritual force and directing
the carving process. As he describes it, it is as if he is no
longer the artist, but [that] he is the glass and someone else
is the carver."-Jan Smith, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum.
Signed/dated.
Height 5 5/16". $6500-8000 |
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 Lot 305
Salvador Ysart concentric millefiori paperweight,
with a central white, red and yellow cross cane, encircled by
four rings of canes in blue, red, yellow and white, on opaque
aqua ground. Small side bruises. Uncommon "Y" signature
cane. One of a select few of Salvador's concentrics marked with
the "Y" signature. "A few of these better quality
pieces were signed with a "Y" cane…presumably
because of the high degree of skill needed to make this type
of weight." -R.G. Hall, "Cambridge Paperweight
Circle Newsletter," August 2002.
Diameter 3 3/16". $1800-2800 |
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 Lot 306
Salvador Ysart concentric millefiori paperweight,
with a central pink and yellow complex cane, encircled by four
rings of canes in blue, red, green, yellow, orange and white,
on opaque blue ground. Uncommon "Y" signature cane.
Small side bruises. Another example of the high-quality work
produced by the Vasart factory in the period when all three members
of the famous Ysart family worked together from around 1946 to
1956. As for the rare "Y" signature cane, "...the
question remains, why do some weights contain the "Y"
cane and not all of them, (when) the quality of this range of
weights is the same and made apparently by the same hand?"
-R. G. Hall, "Cambridge Paperweight Circle Newsletter,"
August 2002.
Diameter 3 1/16". $1800-2800 |
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