Marbles: Sublime Rt 66 Glassworks Phantom Flower Dichro Marble w/Stand 1 1/4

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This spectacular marble and stand were crafted by a young man whom I consider to be the finest marble artist/torchworker of our time, Rich Hollingshead. Working out of his studio, Rte. 66 Glassworks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he is creating some of the most innovative, mind-altering designs I have ever seen in glass, and to add to his already growing fame, his work is now on display at Wheaton Arts' world-famous Museum of American Glass. He has also been highly praised by the great paperweight/botanical artist and furnace worker, Paul Stankard. I have been fortunate to acquire several pieces by this young master, but now I find I am unable to keep them all. Therefore, I am offering this exquisite fumed Phantom Flower Dichroic marble and matching stand for auction. The marble, measuring 1 1/4" in diameter, has an otherworldly beauty that is impossible to describe. Under a dome of some of the clearest borosilicate glass you will ever see, a stylized "ghostlike" flower floats. It comprises a central spiral of fumed yellowish-green with ten arms moving clockwise and rising to within a millimeter of the surface, plus a lower, outer layer of eight pink petals moving counterclockwise, while more of the same - only very ethereal, so as to be almost invisible - lie directly underneath, like a funhouse mirror image, due to the refractive read more

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