DOUGLASS, Kan. – Woody Auction is offering a surefire cure for cabin fever with what it’s calling the finest art glass auction ever held at its Douglass gallery, opened in 2015. Offered will be over 350 lots, featuring three core collections of mainly art glass and art pottery. The sale will be held Saturday, March 18, starting at 9:30 a.m. Central time. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Expected top lots will include Galle and Daum Nancy “bat” vases, a Galle marquetry vase, brides baskets, Weller and Roseville art pottery.
As with all Woody Auction sale events, everything will be sold without reserve.
Particularly beautiful are the two “bat” vases, the Daum Nancy example a rare signed French cameo art glass vase, 10 1/4 inches tall, depicting eight bats in flight over a church steeple. The vase (below) has a yellow, orange and amethyst mottled background, with cameo carved amethyst overlay.
The Galle “bat” vase (below), diminutive at 5 1/4 inches tall, is signed, with a white and dark lavender carved design that features bats in flight silhouetted by the moon over a village.
Signed Daum Nancy French cameo art glass vases will be plentiful. Include is a signed French cameo art glass vase boasting possibly the finest winter scene item Woody Auction has ever sold, a signed French cameo art glass covered jar in a rare shape and 14 3/4 inches tall.
A pair of signed Galle French cameo art glass vases – one having a green background with strong carved pink floral blossom overlay, the other boasting vibrant translucent mottled seaweed green coloring with cameo carved branch, leaf and berry design – will attract bidder interest, as will a signed Emile Galle French art pottery figural owl (below), 13 inches tall, with a life-like brown glaze, on a red base.
Beautiful Handel lamps will also come up for bid. These will include a marked reverse painted lamp (below) having a chipped-ice shade with exotic birds of paradise in flight against an orange and black mottled background, artist signed “HB”; and a marked reverse painted lamp, also with a chipped-ice shade, with colorful parrots and butterfly among blossoming peonies, against a charcoal gray matte ground.
Internet bidders are encouraged to register a day or two ahead of the auction.
For details contact Woody Auction at 316-747-2694 or email info@woodyauction.com.
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