$4,920
Contemporary Marbles and Paperweights: Approximately 339 Items Art glass United States, late 20th/early 21st century Including sixteen paperweights, fifteen signed, dated and numbered by James Alloway with various latticino, filigrana, and dichroic designs, and one signed Gary Greenway(? ), 2003, dia. 2 to 3 1/4; and 323 marbles, of varying sizes and techniques, including filigrana, twist, dichroic, boro, and murrine, some encasing space or underwater scenes, figures, or flowers, most of abstract designs, most incised or engraved with initials, some with artist's marks within the glass, artists represented include James Alloway, Drew Fritts, Mark Matthews, Cathy Richardson, Dennis Jones, William Murray, Josh Sable, Rolf and Genie Wald, Malachi Wilkinson, Doug Sweet, and many others, some signatures illegible, dia. 1/2 to 3 1/3 in.; sold with a bowl in green glass with threading, signed Artist Edition, #13, William P. Murray, 2002, dia. 6; and wide shallow multicolored twist cased in blue center bowl signed Alloway, 9/02, #8, dia. 15 1/4 in. Provenance: The estate of Jessica Austin.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-06-28
