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.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
Several paperweights and marbles with minor fisheyes, one paperweight with two more notable fisheyes.
Other initials include, JS, DEJ, PKM, FES(?), KON, T.V.G., Wilkinson, PAN, Sweet, FINE, TAT, DS, RR, WPM, TERI, V. WILSON, SH, SL, TAJ
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