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This piece and two more I'm listing are from the Estate of Lael Cater Seagert UTArt Department and later Director of Laa Gloria Art Museum here in Austin so these were likely gifts from Soto as they had signed books from so many Texas Artists that were given to them as gifts. Piece measures 7 5/8" tall x 5.25" wide. No cracks, chips, restorations, or crazing.Below is an excerpt from the artists eulogy.Ishmael Soto, longtime Austin ceramicist and teacher, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 84.“Ishmael’s passing is a loss for us all in the community,” said Sylvia Orozco, director of Mexic-Arte Museum. “He was a great human being, teacher and artist. Ishmael was one of the first, if not the first Mexican-American Austinite to become a professional visual artist.”Artist and teacher Ishmael Soto died Feb. 27 at age 84. Contributed by Tahila MintzSoto won many prizes and was exhibited frequently in group and solo shows.A native Austinite, Soto earned his first degree from the University of Texas and his second from the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His 57th Annual Potters Show and Sale took place in December 2016. He taught ceramics at UT for seven years — one of the first Hispanics to teach in the art department — then at St. Edward’s University and Austin Community College for a total of more than 30 years..“He was a modest, generous mentor and major inspiration to many artists,” said his widow, Cynthia Leigh. “He taught thousands of students over his lifetime. Many of his students decided to become artists from his encouragement and support. He did not try to mold his students to imitate his work; he encouraged them to follow their own artistic path and draw on their own talents. B26

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c1940 Art Deco Arthur Wood Garden Wall Vase. 9.25" tall x 9.5" handle to handle<br>with no cracks, chips, or restorations. Fine crazing with no stains. Very large<br>and good looking piece hand decorated from the first half of the 20th century.<br>TW137

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c1925 Royal Doulton Chang over Sung decorated Flambe Signed by Charles Noke<br>(1858 - 1941); Harry Nixon (1886 - 1955). Large, rare, one of a kind and<br>important. 9.75" 24.5cm tall x 6" 15cm wide. No cracks, chips, restorations or<br>wear. Overall crackle glaze from production. This is likely the most fun and<br>interesting piece of pottery I've owned and I've appreciated art pottery the<br>majority of my life. This piece was entirely decorated with the prunus<br>chinoiserie "Sung" decoration (Iridescent branches and flowers) and flambe glaze<br>then they poured this crazy thick Chang glaze on it and just let it run. I feel<br>this is likely a piece from the very beginning of Chang production in 1925 or<br>even before when they were experimenting as it's a most unusual and extremely<br>labor intensive piece, even the bottom seems like a party. In addition to the<br>painted marks and signatures there is also an impressed Doulton and something<br>else that I just couldn't decide what it was. For international shipment it will<br>be sent Fedex so it will be there in less than a week unless you have an<br>objection.<br>B33

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Huge Antique French/Bohemian Cobalt Cut to clear Heavy gold Vase. This is a<br>really big monster of a vase circa late 19th to early 20th century with no<br>cracks or chips, minor gold wear in one spot shown in pics. I'm feeling this is<br>likely French, possibly Val St Lambert, Baccarat, or St Louis. I'm also listing<br>a vase from the same estate with a similar pattern in red.<br>TW102

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c1960 Ercole Barovier & Toso Striato Murano Art Glass Vase. A large 11", complex<br>and uncommon(Documented) form from the mid 20th century. Incredible piece of art<br>glass. Unsigned with no cracks, chips, dings, or restorations. Estate fresh<br>piece.<br>B20

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Huge Antique Deruta Umbrella Stand/Floor Vase with Unusual Incised Decoration.<br>One very small chip on footrim, nothing. No other chips, no cracks, no<br>restorations.

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Great piece 9.75" wide x 7" tall with no cracks, chips, or restorations. There is a tiny flaw on the handle, very insignificant and minor crazing.TW79

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Fukagawa Seiji Arita Vase With Cobalt Imari Style Decoration c.1960. 8.5" tall with no cracks, chips, restorations or crazing. TW16

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Large Orrefors faceted Intaglio Etched Vase with Flower Seller No cracks, chips, dings, or scratches. 9" tall, I couldn't get good pics of this piece, but it's incredible. The etching stands out beautifully and really sets the piece off, it was just difficult to photograph.

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Huge Meiji Period Antique Japanese Rose Medallion Style Polychrome enamed VaseHand Decorated no cracks, chips, no restorations. Some wear to gilding. 16.5" tall x 12.5" wide.

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c1920 R Lalique Vases 9 3/8" plate. No cracks, chips, or restorations.

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This piece measures 7" tall x 4" wide. It has no cracks, chips, restorations,<br>scratches, or crazing. Incredibly executed simplistic design that is surely to<br>blend in with any environment while standing out to those with good taste. Nice<br>vintage piece circa mid 20th century.

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Hand Painted Japanese Porcelain Double Gourd Vase 7.5" tall circa mid 20th century, excellent quality. No damage or wear whatsoever.

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4.25" tall x 3.5" wide with no cracks or chips, no loss of enamel or other issues. Some wear to Gilding on rim. Guaranteed circa late 19th century. Selling both for one price.Tw98

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Great jeweled Nippon double handled vase. The jewels over the roses create a nice tapestry effect. Some wear to the Gilding as shown in pics, also 4 of the moriage jewels are missing. Other than that there are no cracks, chips, excessive wear, or restorations. Guarantee circa late 19th century 6" wide x 9.25" tall.

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An amazing amount of work went into this piece. All of the decoration and gold<br>is 100% hand done guaranteed. It could be French, possibly Baccarat. No cracks<br>or chips guaranteed. There is some wear to the gold mainly on the base and on<br>the skinny neck back and front center. Very large piece 14 3/8"

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Unusual 19th century Chinese piece. Hand built and decorated. Wear as expected, come to Decoration. Gilding wear on rim, small chips on rim and tight .75" hairline on right corner at rim, also very tight 1" hairline on base.

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They measure 11.75" tall with no cracks, chips, or restoration guaranteed.<br>They're both impressed 125 P&A, both are missing much of the Gilding. Both are<br>100% hand painted portraits. Guarantee circa mid 19th century.

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Fostoria Midnight Rose Etched Footed Flared Vase 8 3/8" no chips, cracks, or stains. Light scratches in bottom inside of vase.

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c1960 Fukagawa Seiji Arita Vase Magnolia Blossom Japanese Vase 6.5" tall x 5.25" wide. It has no cracks, chips, restorations, scratches, or crazing. Incredibly executed simplistic design that is surely to blend in with any environment while standing out to those with good taste. Nice vintage piece circa mid 20th century.b15

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Mint with no cracks, chips, crazing, or restorations guaranteed. Clean inside and out, really tough to find in this condition.

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9" tall x 6" wide. Really special with all hand painted decoration. Circa 1930's to 1940's. No cracks, chips, gold wear, or other damage.

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Enormous Daniel Lotton Multi-Flora art glass vase 12" tall x 8" wide, huge and<br>extremely heavy with no damage or flaws.<br><br><br>Daniel Lotton is the son of world renown glass artist Charles Lotton. Born into<br>an artistic family, Daniel was encouraged to express his creative energies. At<br>the age of 14 he started working in Charles' Lynwood glass shop learning to make<br>pendants and paperweights. At the age of 17 he started doing Charles' finishing<br>work which consisted of grinding and polishing glass. He later assisted and<br>apprenticed Charles for several years. When Daniel graduated high school he<br>started working full time in the studio for Charles as well as creating his own<br>glass. As his skills grew so did his commitment to his art. Through the years<br>Daniel has grown into the artist that he is now today.<br><br>A constant throughout his career and his work is the inspiration he derives from<br>nature. Some of those designs that he has created over his career is his Pulled<br>Fern design, Anthuriums Flowers, Tuliptokiss Flowers, Iris, Asters as well as<br>his signature Cynthia Flower. Surely these will stand the test of time in the<br>art world. Examination of any Daniel Lotton art from paperweights and perfume<br>bottles as well as vases, lamps, and chandeliers will inevitably communicate his<br>desire to emulate the Master's great hand in every laboring creation.<br><br>Daniels' passion for glass has changed throughout the years.Daniel spends many<br>hours sketching new designs, perfecting color formulas to personlly excute those<br>ideas to keep his art progressive. At the present time he is captivated in<br>creating beautiful lighting, such as lamps, lighted tables as well as<br>chandeliers. He creates beautiful custom lighting for collectors as well as<br>businesses.<br><br>You can find Daniel's studio surrounded by farm fields in the quaint town of<br>Crete, Illinois. Daniel's unique one-of-a-kind pieces can be found in many fine<br>galleries across the country.<br><br>His work is collected by art enthusiasts, celebrities, and prominent sports<br>icons both nationally and internationally. NASCAR Champion Tony Stewart, Grammy<br>Award Winner Singer Melissa Etheridge, and Actress Salma Hayek are just a few of<br>the prominent collectors of Daniel Lotton's Art Glass. Assuredly, Daniel Lotton<br>collectibles will be enjoyed by many generations to come.

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Large Daniel Lotton Art Glass Vase 7" tall x 8.5" wide with no cracks, chips,<br>restorations, or other issues. Iridescent interior, amazing piece overall.<br><br><br>Daniel Lotton is the son of world renown glass artist Charles Lotton. Born into<br>an artistic family, Daniel was encouraged to express his creative energies. At<br>the age of 14 he started working in Charles' Lynwood glass shop learning to make<br>pendants and paperweights. At the age of 17 he started doing Charles' finishing<br>work which consisted of grinding and polishing glass. He later assisted and<br>apprenticed Charles for several years. When Daniel graduated high school he<br>started working full time in the studio for Charles as well as creating his own<br>glass. As his skills grew so did his commitment to his art. Through the years<br>Daniel has grown into the artist that he is now today.<br><br>A constant throughout his career and his work is the inspiration he derives from<br>nature. Some of those designs that he has created over his career is his Pulled<br>Fern design, Anthuriums Flowers, Tuliptokiss Flowers, Iris, Asters as well as<br>his signature Cynthia Flower. Surely these will stand the test of time in the<br>art world. Examination of any Daniel Lotton art from paperweights and perfume<br>bottles as well as vases, lamps, and chandeliers will inevitably communicate his<br>desire to emulate the Master's great hand in every laboring creation.<br><br>Daniels' passion for glass has changed throughout the years.Daniel spends many<br>hours sketching new designs, perfecting color formulas to personlly excute those<br>ideas to keep his art progressive. At the present time he is captivated in<br>creating beautiful lighting, such as lamps, lighted tables as well as<br>chandeliers. He creates beautiful custom lighting for collectors as well as<br>businesses.<br><br>You can find Daniel's studio surrounded by farm fields in the quaint town of<br>Crete, Illinois. Daniel's unique one-of-a-kind pieces can be found in many fine<br>galleries across the country.<br><br>His work is collected by art enthusiasts, celebrities, and prominent sports<br>icons both nationally and internationally. NASCAR Champion Tony Stewart, Grammy<br>Award Winner Singer Melissa Etheridge, and Actress Salma Hayek are just a few of<br>the prominent collectors of Daniel Lotton's Art Glass. Assuredly, Daniel Lotton<br>collectibles will be enjoyed by many generations to come.

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1979 Charles Lotton Multi-Flora cobalt blue vase 7" tall x 5" wide with no<br>cracks, chips, restorations, or other issues. tw108<br><br>Charles Lotton was born in 1935 in a little Southern Illinois town called<br>Elizabethtown. Charles grew up in a one-room log cabin. He recalls his mom<br>washing clothes down in Peter's Creek to make ends meet.<br><br>After high school, he joined the Air Force and worked as a trouble shooter for<br>ing & navigational equipment.<br><br>Later, Charles married his wife Mary and began a family of four children--3 boys<br>and a girl.<br><br>In 1961, they began a successful hair salon which started his artistic<br>endeavors.<br><br>In May of 1970, Charles went to The Art Institute and spent the day there to<br>watch glass blowing. He came home that day and told his wife that he was going<br>to be a glass blower and started building a furnace in the back yard.<br><br>In November of 1970, Charles began his delve into the world of art glass.<br><br>By January of 1972, Charles met up with the Tiffany expert Lillian Nassau. She<br>had insight that Charles would become great one day. Lillian bought all of<br>Charles' glass for the first five years which enabled him to transition from his<br>hair salon into the world of art glass. Little did anyone else realize fifty<br>years later Charles would still be creating beautiful, one of a kind works of<br>glass art along with his children.<br><br>Throughout the years, Charles' glass continued to evolve from simple<br>paperweights to Vases, Bowls, Flower Forms, Persian Water Sprinklers, Pendant<br>Lighting, Lamps, and Chandeliers. His designs also evolved from a molten blob<br>made from melted pop bottles in his backyard into the most beautiful creations<br>in the world today. Charles was completely self-taught, down to his own formulas<br>that create the color of his glass.<br><br>Charles had a strong determination to succeed yet had one of the most humble<br>natures of anyone that you would ever meet. He was a true man of God. Charles<br>attributed his success with his strong faith. He always prayed that the Lord<br>would continue to bless him and his family with making beautiful glass each day.<br><br>Today, Charles is world-renowned for the most beautiful designs in art, like the<br>'Multi Flora' and 'Cypriot' styles. These trademark designs have put him into<br>hundreds of major museums and private collections.

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Weller Hudson Cherry Blossom Vase. 9.25" tall with no cracks, chips. or<br>restorations. Some crazing with a few light stains.

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Large 1920's Muller Frères Cameo Glass Landscape vase. 12" tall x 5.25" wide<br>with no cracks, chips, or restorations. tw108<br><br>Cameo glass is a luxury form of glass art produced by cameo glass engraving or<br>etching and carving through fused layers of differently colored glass to produce<br>designs, usually with white opaque glass figures and motifs on a dark-colored<br>background. The technique is first seen in ancient Roman art of about 30 BC,<br>where it was an alternative to the more luxurious engraved gem vessels in cameo<br>style that used naturally layered semi-precious gemstones such as onyx and<br>agate. Glass allowed consistent and predictable colored layers, even for round<br>objects.<br><br>From the mid-19th century there was a revival of cameo glass, suited equally to<br>Neo-Grec taste and the French Art Nouveau practiced by Émile Gallé. Cameo glass<br>is still produced today.<br><br>Muller Frères (Co.) was an esteemed French glassmaking company based in<br>Luneville, France, famous for its Art Nouveau vases, lampshades, and<br>chandeliers, which often incorporate layered and colored glass. Their workshop<br>was established by Henri Muller and his brothers in 1895 after they trained with<br>Émile Gallé—who would retain a grudge against Muller for setting up a rival<br>enterprise. In 1910, the company began making lamps in association with Chapelle<br>and, at its height, employed around 300 workers. Production was stopped in 1933<br>and the factory closed three years later, a victim of the Great Depression.

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Early Pre 1913 UND Pottery North Dakota School Of Mines Toothpick/Cabinet Vase2.75" tall, though the style is Art Deco I believe this to be a pre 1913 mark, correct me if I'm wrong. No cracks, chips, or restorations.UND pottery was a turn of the 20th century effort to promote “a wealth of design material peculiar to the prairies” — as Margaret Cable wrote in a 1926 brochure. UND Pottery is now highly collectible, has been featured on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow and is the subject of several books.tw119

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Large c1926 Roseville Carnelian II Art deco vase 10.25" x 7". No cracks, chips,<br>restorations, or exterior crazing, some crazing on base inside the footrim.

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Steuben footed Gold Aurene footed trumpet vase, signed Steuben Aurene 2909,<br>8.25" tall PROVENANCE: Treadway Toomey's 3/6/05 sale in Chicago. This piece is<br>flawless from every angle, stands straight, no scratches or other damage. This<br>vase is a very rich gold Aurene that was difficult to capture in the pics.<br><br>Steuben Glass Works<br><br>Steuben Glass is an American art glass manufacturer, founded in the summer of<br>1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York, which is in<br>Steuben County, from which the company name was derived. Hawkes was the owner of<br>the largest cut glass firm then operating in Corning. Carder was an Englishman<br>(born September 18, 1863) who had many years' experience designing glass for<br>Stevens and Williams in England. Hawkes purchased the glass blanks for his<br>cutting shop from many sources and eventually wanted to start a factory to make<br>the blanks himself. Hawkes convinced Carder to come to Corning and manage such a<br>factory. Carder, who had been passed over for promotion at Stevens and Williams,<br>consented to do so.<br><br>In 1918, Steuben was acquired by Corning Glass Works and became the Steuben<br>Division.<br><br>In July 2008, Steuben was sold by Corning Incorporated for an undisclosed price<br>to Schottenstein Stores,[2] which also owns 51% of Retail Ventures, a holding<br>company for DSW, Filene's Basement, and formerly Value City Department Stores;<br>Value City Furniture, which changed its name to American Signature Furniture;<br>15% of American Eagle Outfitters, retail liquidator SB Capital Group, some 50<br>shopping centers, and 5 factories producing its shoes, furniture and crystal.<br><br>On September 15, 2011, Schottenstein announced it was shutting down Steuben's<br>Corning factory and Manhattan store, ending the company's 108-year history. Soon<br>after, Corning Incorporated repurchased the Steuben brand. In early 2014, The<br>Corning Museum of Glass announced that it would work with independent<br>contractors to reproduce Steuben using a new, lead-free formula and their<br>classic leaded crystal.<br><br>Carder period (1903-1932)<br>Steuben Glass Works started operation in October 1903. Carder produced blanks<br>for Hawkes and also began producing cut glass himself. Carder's great love was<br>colored glass and had been instrumental in the reintroduction of colored glass<br>while at Stevens and Williams. When Steuben's success at producing blanks for<br>Hawkes became assured, Carder began to experiment with colored glass and<br>continued experiments that were started in England. He soon perfected Gold<br>Aurene which was similar to iridescent art glass that was being produced by<br>Tiffany and others. Gold Aurene was followed by a wide range of colored art<br>glass that eventually was produced in more than 7,000 shapes and 140 colors.<br><br>Steuben Glass Works continued to produce glass of all sorts until World War I.<br>At that time war time restrictions made it impossible for Steuben to acquire the<br>materials needed to continue manufacture. The company was subsequently sold to<br>Corning Glass Works and became the Steuben Division. Carder continued as<br>Division manager without any real change in the company's operation except that<br>he now had reporting responsibilities to Corning Glass Works' management.<br>Corning's management tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to limit the articles that<br>Steuben made to only the most popular. Production continued until about 1932.<br><br>In 1932, there was a major change in Steuben management. The nationwide<br>depression had limited the sale of Steuben and there was a lessening of public<br>interest in colored glass. In February 1932, John MacKay was appointed to<br>Carder's position. Carder became Art Director for Corning Glass Works. Steuben<br>then produced primarily colorless art glass.<br><br>Steuben still produced colored art glass, but mostly to fill special orders. A<br>few new colors were added after Carder transitioned into his new role with<br>Corning Glass Works, but the last known sale for colored art glass by Steuben<br>was in 1943<br>B70

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c1920's Richard Cameo art glass vase/perfume 5.25" tall with no cracks, chips,<br>or restorations. May have started life as a perfume bottle.<br><br>Loetz produced cameo glass under the name 'Richard' in the 1920’s to satisfy<br>demand for cameo glass within the Parisian market. The French company Etling<br>sold Richard cameo glass in Paris in the 1920's. Richard was a retail outlet in<br>Paris owned by Edmond Etling. Etling commissioned Loetz to create French style<br>cameo glass that they could sell in their Richard boutique.<br>tw212

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Huge 1943 Tlaquepaque Vase Souvenir of Santa Fe New Mexico. Great piece of<br>1940's Mexican Folk/Art pottery. Two very shallow chips on foot, no other<br>cracks, chips, or restorations. Very substantial 12.5" tall

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Early Van Briggle Cabinet vase. Teens-20's 4" tall with no cracks, chips,restorations, or crazing. tw122Van Briggle Art Pottery was at the time of its demise the oldest continuously operating art pottery in the United States, having been established in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1901 by Artus and Anne Van Briggle. Artus had a significant impact on the Art Nouveau movement in the United States, and his pottery is foundational to American Art Pottery. The Art Nouveau style favored by its founders continues to influence the pottery's designs. Artus Van Briggle settled in Colorado Springs in 1899 after establishing himself as a notable artist with the Rookwood Pottery of Ohio. With Anne Louise (née Gregory), his new wife, Artus began exploring the Art Nouveau style in their pottery creations, drawing awards and accolades from the American and European art communities. Although he was a talented painter who had displayed and won awards in Europe, from 1899 until his death Artus devoted himself almost exclusively to the craft and art of pottery. Van Briggle's Art Nouveau designs and distinctive matte glazes were awarded high honors from prestigious sources, including the Paris Salon, the Saint Louis Exposition, the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, and the American Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Boston.The Van Briggle Pottery Studio closed in spring 2012Artus Van Briggle in 1900. Born to artistic parents on March 21, 1869, Artus Van Briggle had an early introduction to painting using materials found about the home. The Van Briggle family lived in Ohio, one of America's hotbeds of ceramic design. At the age of 17 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he decorated china dolls at the Arnold Fairyland Doll Store, while attending his early art studies at the Cincinnati Art School. After a stint at the Avon Pottery where he was introduced to the ceramic arts, Artus took a job at Rookwood Pottery; there he excelled at hand-painting designs. His skill and talent were recognized by Rookwood founder, Maria Storer, who became his benefactor, even sending him to France to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris.In Europe, he was exposed to styles of art and became infatuated with an early matte glaze from the Chinese Ming Dynasty; a type that was lost to history. Artus also met his future wife, fellow American student Anne Lawrence Gregory, an accomplished artist in her own right. Finishing their Paris studies in 1896, they returned to America. Artus resumed his work at Rookwood and also started sculpting and experimented with recreating the lost Ming Dynasty glazes.Perfecting the distinctive dull or matte glaze In 1899, struggling with health issues due to tuberculosis, Artus left Rookwood and moved to the drier air of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Upon befriending the Holmes family of Chico Basin, he stayed at the HOP Ranch during the summers of 1899, 1900, and 1901 to reduce work stress and regain strength while pursuing his own styles of pottery, centered around the Art Nouveau movement. He continued his research on the ancient matte glazes that fascinated him in Paris. After two years of trials and experiments a matte glaze was perfected. One of the matte glazes perfected by Artus was the matte blue glaze, based on an ancient Chinese process that had long been lost to history.Artus opened Van Briggle Pottery in 1901 and was joined by Anne Gregory, who took a position as a high school art teacher in Colorado Springs. In 1903, Artus Van Briggle was appointed First Director of the Department of Art and Design in Colorado College, succeeding Louis Soutter, a Swiss artist (born in Geneva, Switzerland) he met in Paris in 1895.In 1902, Anne and Artus were married, and she devoted herself to their pottery; she created designs and collaborated in all aspects of the enterprise with her husband. Late 1902 brought Van Briggle awards for his glazes and designs in Art Nouveau from the prestigious Paris Salon; he was now an accepted artist. During their early years, Artus and Ann established hundreds of Art Nouveau styles of pottery under the Van Briggle name. The Despondency vase won Van Briggle wide acclaim and first place at the Paris Salon in 1903. A display at the 1904 Centennial Exhibit in St. Louis won Van Briggle more awards and greater international fame. Van Briggle Memorial Pottery Pottery loses its founder Artus Van Briggle died in July 1904, at the age of 35. Anne continued the pottery using the forms created by Artus as a foundation and adding more designs of her own. In 1907, Anne and pottery stockholder and city-founder William Jackson Palmer began construction on a new pottery on Uintah Street. The Van Briggle Memorial Pottery — designed by Dutch architect Nicholas Van den Arend — was opened in 1908 and stands today as an historic landmark noted for its architecture and use of ceramics in the facade.Having remarried in 1908, Anne Louise Gregory Ritter leased the pottery in 1912 to Edmund deForest Curtis, who ran it until 1916. She sold the company in 1922 to J.F. and I.H. Lewis and moved to Denver the following year, where she would concentrate on painting and where she remained until her death in 1929. In her absence, the pottery fell under financial hardships and was sold at sheriff's auction; later it was re-sold, once more becoming the property of Mr. Curtis.Surviving disaster and war The pottery was sold twice more in the ensuing decade and survived a fire in 1919 that gutted the interior but left the brick shell and kilns. New owners I.F. and J.H. Lewis took the opportunity to modernize and expand the facility beginning in 1920 and stabilized the production and financial aspects of the pottery for the first time. Despite damage from the flood of 1935—the most destructive flood in Colorado Springs history — that destroyed much of the company's records and molds, the pottery continued to enjoy success up to World War II, when they closed for approximately three years as the United States focused its resources on the war effort.With the increase of interstate travel in the United States a freeway was planned in 1953 for Colorado Springs which J.H. Lewis estimated would run through the Memorial Plant site. Although the freeway eventually was planned to avoid destroying the historic pottery, Mr. Lewis nonetheless put into action plans to relocate the pottery to a higher-traffic area of Colorado Springs. In 1955, Mr. Lewis and Clem Hull brought a new facility on line at a renovated railroad roundhouse on Midland Road. The new facility, known as the Midland Plant, had a smaller capacity but enjoyed quick success due to its location on the main highway to the Garden of the Gods and other tourist locations.In 1968, Mr. Lewis sold the Memorial Plant to Colorado College, and it fell into disrepair for the ensuing 40 years, being used variously as offices and storage.

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Hand Painted Chinese Famille rose vase. 14" tall x 6" wide with no cracks,<br>chips, or restorations. Likely apocryphal mark, unsure of exact age but I know<br>it's not new. High quality vase.

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Huge Vintage Fenton Uranium Glass Topaz opalescent vaseline hobnail vase. 8"<br>tall x 9" wide with no damage whatsoever.

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7" Noritake Nippon Toki Kaisha Hand Painted Artist Signed Vase Really special with all hand painted decoration. Circa 1930's to 1940's. No cracks, chips, or other damage.tw58

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c1960 Fukagawa Seiji Arita cobalt blue bud Vase 8.5" tall with No cracks, chips,<br>restorations, gold wear, or scratches.<br>tw274

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Edward Hald (1883-1980) for Orrefors, Graal Fish Vase 1963 Mid century Modern.<br>This impressive vase designed by Edward Hald is extremely heavy and thick<br>walled. The flash pattern depicts a series of fish and sea weeds. The aquarium<br>effect is significantly enhanced by the reflection of the flashed pattern on the<br>inner walls of the glass vase.Dimensions: 4.75 tal, 6 pounds. Condition: Very<br>good. No chips, cracks or repairs. Wear consistent with age; some light<br>scratches mainly on base as it's very heavy. Signature: "Orrefors Graal vr 310t<br>Edward Hald" script on the base.<br><br>A Note About the Artist: Edward Hald (1883-1980) trained as an architect and<br>painter. He studied in Dresden, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris. His time in<br>Copenhagen included work under Johan Rohde; in Paris he worked under Matisse. In<br>1917, Hald worked briefly at Rorstrand, and then began his long association with<br>Orrefors. At the time Edward Hald joined Orrefors in 1917, the early experiments<br>of Simon Gate and the master glassblower, Knudt Bergkvist, for the Graal<br>technique were still evolving. The Graal technique used acid etching or wheel<br>carving to create thin designs in relief on the surface of multilayer, glass<br>blanks. The carved blanks were then heated to a molten state by glassblowers,<br>encased with an additional layer of clear glass to entrap the design, and<br>finally worked with blowing to a finished state. The result was literally,<br>"painting within the glass".Edward Hald created some of the earliest designs to<br>use the Graal method. He continued to work in Graal throughout his long career,<br>including the heavy "Fish Graal" pieces first shown in 1937. Also "Slip Graal"<br>and "Aqua Graal" were favored techniques. Hald also designed many important<br>engraved pieces such as the "Fireworks" bowl. He retired from Orrefors in 1978.

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Large Japanese Mixed Metals vase. 11" tall without base. Base has loss to one<br>foot therefore either needs a piece of felt under one foot or similar fix as it<br>wobbles on the base. Vase by itself weighs about 1200 grams of mostly pure<br>silver as even the copper sections have silver under them, then there's areas of<br>gold inlay in the flowers and as part of the signature, my big scale is locked<br>in the car, but it's close to that. A few small dents and abrasions, mainly in<br>one spot shown on the back.

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c1924 Roseville Imperial II Bulbous Vase no cracks, chips, restorations,<br>crazing, scratches, or detectable flaws. 7" tall x 6.5" wide. Above average<br>glaze with crisp molding.<br>isshelf

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Noritake Nippon Toki Kaisha Hand Painted Artist Signed Vase Pair of Vases 8.5".<br>Selling the pair shown, really special with all hand painted decoration. Circa<br>1930's to 1940's. No cracks, chips, or other damage.<br><br>isshelf

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Large Meiji Period Sumida Gawa Japanese vase. Late 19th to early 20th centurywith no damage, some wear to matte glaze. 12.5" tall.Sumida Gawa is a type of Japanese pottery that originated in the early 1800s. The name comes from the Sumida River, which runs near the Asakusa pottery district in Tokyo. The pottery is known for its bright, humorous, and sometimes odd motifs. Sumida Gawa is heavy and often covered with three-dimensional figures, such as humans, buildings, and monkeys. The Sumida River is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River and flows into Tokyo Bay. During the Edo period (17th through mid-19th centuries), the Sumida River was a key transportation artery and a popular spot for recreation.

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c1926 Roseville Carnelian II Art deco vase. Wonderful blue/green matte glazewith no cracks, chips, restorations, crazing, scratches, or detectable flaws. 8.25" tall.

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c1940 Rumrill Art Pottery Vase and Candle holder with unusual sponged green matte glaze. Vase is 6" tall x 6.5" wide at the rim. No damage or restorations to either of the pieces, candle holders are unmarked but from the same estate and obviously match. Selling the set shown.George Rumrill, a Little Rock, Arkansas native, was a founder of the Arkansas Products Company. The Arkansas Products Company was formed to promote Arkansas made products. Two of the products that were promoted were Niloak Pottery from Benton and Camark Pottery from Camden. George Rumrill's position as a founder and promoter of the Arkansas Products Company gave him access to many of the two pottery's catalogs and products.At some point in time, the Arkansas Products Company came to pass and George Rumrill decided to create his own pottery company. Since he had no facilities in which to make pottery, he contacted existing pottery companies to create his line of pottery. RumRill's most popular designs were made by Red Wing Stoneware Company from 1933-1936 and Red Wing Potteries from 1936-1938. Shawnee produced RumRill Pottery in 1938 for a short time. Then Florence and Gonder potteries produced RumRill until his death in 1942.George Rumrill created many of his own designs. It is interesting to note, however, that there are a number of RumRill pieces that are known Camark shapes. With George Rumrill's access to the Camark catalogs and products, this should be no surprise. There are also RumRill pieces that were made from Red Wing molds. Some of RumRill's designs were produced throughout RumRill's existence by all of the contracting pottery companies.

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Kimm Lanus Pop art large hand painted porcelain vase. 12.5" tall with no damage<br>or wear.<br><br>Kimm Lanus was born in Rome, New York, was raised in New England, and currently<br>resides in Granbury, Texas. Her studies in art began in 1972 at University of<br>Texas at Arlington, and from her first exposure to art history and the painting<br>of Toulouse Lautrec, Rossetti, Rapheal, Albrecht Durer, and later Carriere, and<br>Edward Hopper. She was so deeply moved by these artists that art become a way of<br>life and she made sure it was in the forefront of her life moving forward.<br><br>“I have been lead to paint images of Mary after a vision I experienced ten years<br>ago. I was seated alone at church, in the silence of prayer, her presence was so<br>clear I could hear the movement of her garments as she knelt before me. I paint<br>her in the perspective of many different s and nationalities to promote a sense<br>of unity. Her image speaks of unconditional love, family, peace, and healing.<br>Women often connect to her with a Goddess sense of empowerment.”<br><br>Lanus taught school for over six years to the middle school level, as well as<br>teaching privately to adults and teenagers. After teaching for over ten years as<br>well as doing workshops for the art guilds of Granbury, McKinney, Wylie, and<br>Richardson, Texas, she participated in several juried shows such as the Collin<br>County Annual Show, Holiday National Show, Dallas Visual Arts Annual Show,<br>Granbury Arts Annual Show, Plano Annual Art Show, Wylie Annual Art Show, Wylie<br>Annual Show, Richardson and Irving. She received first and second place awards<br>on numerous occasions, and ‘Best of Show’ from the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Edward Diers (1871 - 1947) 1904 Rookwood Vellum Vase. Ed Diers was an artist atRookwood from 1896 to 1931. He was educated at the Ohio Mechanics Institute, Industrial Art School and the Cincinnati Art Academy, according to notes posted on AskArt.com. He is well known for his particular skill in executing landscapes on the Rookwood pieces he decorated. No cracks, chips, or restorations. 1904 Was the first Year this glaze was introduced, so this was likely an experimental piece. There are some flaws, crazing and peppering to the white part of the poppy 5.25" tall.

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Large 1960's Fenton Puffy Rose Cranberry Satin Cased milk glass vase. 8.5" tall<br>x 7" wide, made by Fenton for LG wright typically this shape was a lamp shade<br>but this one is a much less common vase. No cracks, chips, or other issues.<br>isshelf

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Large Antique Chinese Famille Rose Vase. 14.25" tall with no damage, UV<br>examination shows no restorations.

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Cobalt Fenton 75 Year Vase . Mint condition cabinet kept with no damage or wear. 9.75" tall vase. tw270

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High quality Vintage Asian Style Incised Celadon Studio pottery bottle form vase 5 5/8" tall with 1" interior opening of mouth, 4.5" wide. No cracks, chips, or restorations. At the moment I'm unfamiliar with the artisan but in my opinion the quality is top notch.isshelf

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Jose Arellano Castelló (1921-1997) Spanish Mid century modern art pottery vase.<br>8 5/8" tall x 7.25" wide with no cracks, chips, crazing, or restorations. Glazed<br>over pre production chip on footrim.<br><br>Jose Arellano Castelló (1921-1997) was a potter and ceramist Spanish , creator<br>of the seal Ceramistas Arellano in the field of oscense craft .<br>Heir to a pottery tradition of Moorish origin over 300 years old, he trained in<br>the family workshop, until in 1968, encouraged by the ethnographer Josep Llorens<br>i Artigas , he abandoned traditional pottery to train -with his daughter Carmen<br>and his Comrade Joaquín Javierre Rosel- the 'Arellano group', which in 1976 was<br>recognized with the National Ceramics Prize, and which at the beginning of the<br>1980s would sign the monument to «les dones de faldetes», donated to the Fraga<br>city council and which has presided over the town hall square since April 23,<br>1982 (the sculpture represents the popular Fragatina woman in typical costume<br>and with two jugs, in homage to her daily task of fetching water from the Cinca<br>River ).<br>Monument to «les dones de faldetes», in Fraga.<br>After his death in 1997, his native municipality awarded him the Medal of the<br>City of Fraga and gave his name to the street where he lived.<br>isshelf

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Large 1930's Blown art glass vase. 10" tall x 7.5" wide, from a high end<br>collection of American and European art glass, unsigned, possibly Sinclair. The<br>green is darker that a typical "depression glass" green but lighter than a<br>forest green.<br>isshelf

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Meiji Period Japanese Studio Porcelain bottle form vase 14.25" tall with no cracks, chips, or restorations. Great piece with illegible to me signature.isshelf

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Chinese Republic Period Peking Glass Mirrored Pair Bud Vases. Great pair of hand<br>cut Chinese Peking glass vases from the first quarter of the 20th century. 9<br>5/8" tall x 3 7/8" wide. One with very small flake to decoration shown in the<br>last pic. Not noticeable, the only way I found it was with my hand.<br>isshelf

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Chinese Proc period Porcelain Vases. Very high quality pair from the third<br>quarter of the 20th century, all hand painted. 8" tall x 5.5" wide. No cracks,<br>chips, or restorations.<br>TW152

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Formia Sommerso Murano Vases Pair. Selling the pair of vases 10.25" tall with nodamage or wear, one dated 2007, both with original labels. b13

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c1930 Zsonlay Hungary Eosin Iridescent vase Art deco period and style. 6 1/8"tall with no cracks, chips, or restorations, no crazing, no scuffs. Nice piece of early to mid 20th century functional decorative art. TW219

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Nymphenburg Hand Painted Porcelain diminutive bud vases. No cracks, chips, or restorations. 4.25" tall, hand painted, no wear to gold. Selling the pair of vases shown from the mid 20th century.TW166

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Large 1960's Signed Barbini Murano Vase. 14.5" tall x 7.25" wide, great pieceand a fantastic design sure to both stand out and fit in anywhere. Very high quality with no cracks, chips, scratches, or other issues. Signature shown in last pic. isshelf

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Large c1900 Japanese Champleve Vase. Great piece from late 19th to first quarterof 20th century. 12" tall x 8" wide, nice heavy piece. Looks to have once been drilled to make a lamp and later the hole was plugged. It currently holds water with no detectable leaks. Nice form on this one.

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