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 swallow sculpture. A blue swallow has an upward tail, mottled with metallic black accents, a little head, with a few freckles, two recessed eyes and a little black beak, and a white breast. Signed/dated. Length 5 1/4", height 2 3/4". [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 blackbird sculpture. A black bird has a long straight tail, two recessed eyes and a little yellow beak. Signed/dated. Length 4 5/8", height 2 15/16". [hide]

Mike Hunter 2019 hedgehog sculpture. A cute brown hedgehog, its fur speckled with aventurine and black spots, has two little ears next to black beady eyes behind an elongated periwinkle snout and black nose. Signed/dated. Length 3 5/16", height 2 1/4". [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 2016 Zanfirico blue, green and white duck sculpture. Blue, black, green, yellow and white latticinio tubes alternate to form a hollow duck, its head with two millefiori eyes and yellow latticinio beak. Signed/dated. Height 3 7/8", length 5 5/8". [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]

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 cobalt blue body, lavender legs, and a green or orange underside. Signed/dated. Length 9. [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]

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]