AFA Winter 2017

BLITHEWOLD HOME 1945 Italian Ice Bucket Silver Standard .800 • Handmade in Roma 495 & 326 Lexington Ave Mount Kisco, NY 10549 914-666-7533 • blithewoldhome.com Leland Little Auctions Winter Quarterly Auction Saturday, December 2, 2017 Hillsborough, NC For information, call 919.644.1243 or visit www. lelandlittle.com Two masters of the studio glass movement in the United States, Harvey Littleton (1922–2013) and Jon Kuhn (b. 1949), are represented in Leland Little Auctions’ Winter Quarterly Auction. Credited with founding the movement, Littleton’s work, Double Sliced Descending Form , emphasizes the elastic nature of the ancient medium. Kuhn’s work is in direct juxtaposition—working from the inside out with cold glass fused into a solid prism to refract color and light. Predating the studio glass by almost two hundred years, is a sculptural silver gilt fruit basket by Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith II. The eclectic marriage of the Bacchic grapevines with the Egyptian sphinx were the height of fashion in Regency England, as exemplified in “The Grand Service” commissioned in 1806 by the Prince of Wales and including pieces by Scott, Smith II, and Paul Storr. HIGHLIGHTS Winter 50 www.afamag.com | www.incollect.com A George III Silver Gilt Basket, Mark of Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith II; Retailed by Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, London (1805) date letter. Sterling silver, 5½ x 5½ x 13 x 10 in. Jon Kuhn (American, b. 1949) Coral Sonata Glass, Height 25½ in.