Sculptures & Vessels

Vladimir Klein "Ridges Aquamarine Vase". A tall rectangular glass vase, of textured translucent aqua, with rows of notches on each corner edge. Piece has two peaked sides, and two shorter straight sides. Signed. LE of 500. Length 3 1/2", width 2 1/8", height 10 1/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2019 robin sculpture. A little brown robin has a short round tail, two beady eyes, a small black nose and a heart-warming red and white breast. Signed/dated. Length 3 1/8", height 2 7/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2019 blackbird sculpture. A black bird has a long straight tail, two recessed eyes and a little yellow beak. Signed/dated. Length 4 7/16", height 2 7/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2019 "Storm" bird silhouette canes black vase. A crackling textured tapered rust-colored and black vase, speckled with aventurine, is dotted with complex rod canes, each with a central silhouette of bird in flight. Edition #1 of 1. Signed/dated. Diameter 5 1/2", height 9 1/16". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2019 "Sunday Afternoon" car silhouette canes green vase. A crackling textured tapered green vase, speckled with aventurine, is dotted with complex rod canes, each with a central silhouette of a Ford Model T car. Edition #1 of 1. Signed/dated. Diameter 5 1/4", height 9 9/16". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2019 "El Paso" dancing couple silhouette canes blue vase. A crackling textured tapered blue vase, speckled with aventurine, is dotted with complex heart millefiori, each with a central silhouette of a dancing couple. Edition #1 of 1. Signed/dated. Diameter 5", height 9 1/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2013 Zanfirico brown owl sculpture. Ribbons of brown, black, white with two threads of yellow and green with purple and white latticinio twists alternate with one another to form the body of an owl. His two wide eyes, composed of yellow and black millefiori, rest above a small yellow beak. Signed/dated. Height 5 5/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2017 white rose decorative shallow glass bowl. Through a complex and technical method, a shallow bowl is decorated with a wide ring of swirling white latticinio, bordered on the inside rim with a blue-encased white latticinio twist. The same twist is repeated closer to the middle, where it surrounds a complex center featuring a white rose surrounded by yellow roses, then complex blue and white millefiori canes. The bowl rests atop a white latticinio base edged in cobalt blue, echoing the design of the top section. Signed/dated. Diameter 11", height 2 7/8". [hide]

Michael Hunter "Dizzy" decorative shallow glass bowl. "The bowl is made from 3 incalmo sections, the outside two sections are alternating "vetro a fili" whilst the centre is a latticcinio incalmo section. The three cups are pre-made and fused together while hot at the furnace. It's very complex and technical, this style combines ancient Venetian techniques."- Michael Hunter. Signed "Vetro #2". Diameter 12 1/4", height 2 1/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2017 black merletto hollow blown pear sculpture. A hollow pear has stripes of extremely fine twisting tubing radiating in a spiraling direction from the top apex of the stem down to the base flower navel in a delicate lacy, sultry and mysterious black merletto technique. A dark green sculpted leaf tops the stem. Signed/dated. Diameter 3 3/4", height 6 1/4". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2012 Zanfirico butterscotch, blue and white duck sculpture. A proud white chest and blue winged duck is crested by a butterscotch-colored head and prominent beak. Signed/dated. Height 4", length 5 7/8". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2016 Zanfirico black and white penguin sculpture. Ribbons of black latticinio alternate with others of black and white, in a cascade originating at the head of a penguin with two millefiori eyes and a protruding latticinio beak. White latticinio ribbons form the penguin's belly, briefly interrupted by two small patches of symmetrically interposed yellow. Signed/dated. Diameter 3 3/4", height 5 5/8". [hide]

Saint Louis 1983 close concentric millefiori green ring dish. A transparent green ring dish, with a white chaplet bead torsade around the rim, is connected to its colorful close concentric millefiori base by a clear stem. Edition #169 of a limited edition of 300. Signature/date cane. Diameter 4 3/8", height 4". [hide]

Soul Glass Opaline Speckled Octopus small three-dimensional glass sculpture. Signed/dated. Length 8. [hide]

Soul Glass Octopus three-dimensional glass sculpture, with a brown, white, and gold-speckled yellow-green body and legs. Signed/dated. Length 9 1/4. [hide]

Soul Glass Octopus three-dimensional glass sculpture, with a green-speckled body. Signed/dated. Length 9. [hide]

Antique Saint Louis crown paperweight toothpick holder. A pear-shaped upper vessel, the toothpick recipient, is made of vertically draped red and green lattimo twists, white-edged, in alternation with interlacing white latticinio ribbons. It sits atop a small clear pedestal which in turn rests atop a crown weight, it, too, made of red and green twists and white latticinio ribbons, this time all cascading from a six-point star and floret blue and white center cane. Nearly imperceptible surface wear. Diameter 2 7/16", height 4 3/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis pair of white latticinio toothpick holders. Two small footed tumbler-shaped toothpick holders made from alternating solid white and filigree ribbons in a twisted spiral, culminating in a twisted green and white clockwise spiral rim. Diameter 1 11/16", height 2 11/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis scrambled millefiori wafer stand. A clear and shallow bowl, with a blue-over-white rim, is shaped with six ruffle lobes and rises from a base filled with scrambled millefiori and latticinio bits, including a complete dog silhouette cane near the center, in the traditional pistachio, chartreuse, coral and light blue colors. From the C. Frank Kireker Collection. Minor surface wear. Diameter 3 1/2", height 3 1/2". [hide]

Saint Clair iridescent blue vase, by Tom Saint Clair. Blue and black speckles rise on the surface of a small vase towards an iridescent flared collar and are spaced by black vines. Stamp signed. Diameter 3 13/16", height 5". [hide]

Perthshire Paperweights (1982-1996) concentric millefiori perfume bottle. Five concentric rings of millefiori surround a center signature cane on translucent cobalt blue ground. Thick threads of the same cobalt blue color hang vertically within a pointed stopper. Diameter 2 3/4", height 5 1/4". [hide]

Perthshire Paperweights (1969-1994) close packed millefiori faceted inkwell and stopper. An assortment of colorful complex canes is bundled together over a cobalt blue ground at the base of both a hollow bottle and a stopper. Two tiers of eight side facets in alternating sizes on the bottle and two tiers of four alternating side facets and one top facet on the stopper. Signature cane. Diameter 3 9/16", height 5 3/4". [hide]

Orient & Flume 1985 white blossoms tree small vase. Three ribbed trees rise in a radiating pattern with their old branches full of small white flower canes, each with a green and blue center, and thin gray vines. The trees stand against a speckled-red sky, which lines the hollow interior of a vase. The design is superimposed upon itself, tracing the two inner perimeters of a clear double encasement. Signed/dated. Diameter 3 3/8", height 4 3/8". [hide]

Orient & Flume 1984 cherries small vase, by Ed Seaira and Scott Beyers. Clusters of ripe red cherries hang from a sinuous and aged cherry branch which forks in opposing direction from a signature/date cane, and are interspersed with crenulated leaves. The design is superimposed upon itself, tracing the two inner perimeters of a clear double encasement. Signed/dated. Excellent condition. Diameter 3 1/2", height 3 9/16". [hide]