http://www.tias.com/stores/rafa/ New items from Welcome to our Florida-based business that is devoted to the acquisition and selling of antiques and fine art. We are retired university professors (life-time collectors) who have been on-line for several years. Specialties: flow blue and other English porcelain, paperweights, pottery, Japanese woodblock prints and 18th-20th century paintings. All items guaranteed as described. We accept money orders and personal checks and layaway is available. en-us Copyright 2009, TIAS.COM 2010-09-09T04:13:21+00:00 kelly@rafa.com kelly@rafa.com See whats new! Welcome to our Florida-based business that is devoted to the acquisition and selling of antiques and fine art. We are retired university professors (life-time collectors) who have been on-line for several years. Specialties: flow blue and other English porcelain, paperweights, pottery, Japanese woodblock prints and 18th-20th century paintings. All items guaranteed as described. We accept money orders and personal checks and layaway is available. 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923803270.html A large central Clichy-type rose is surrounded by tightly packed intricate complex canes of various size and color, including a signature date cane. Two spiraling white torsades border its double-swirl latticino pedestal base. Made in a limited edition of 250. Height: 3 quot;; diameter: 2 7 8 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : St Louis 1976: Close pack millefiori piedouche paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923803269.html A central complex cane is surrounded by nine rows of different color complex millefiori canes, including a signature date cane. Two spiraling white torsades border its double-swirl latticino pedestal base. Made in a limited edition of 150. Height 2 7 8 quot;; diameter: 3 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : St Louis 1972: Concentric millefiori piedouche paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923800382.html A crisp and clear glass paperweight with a wreath of various colored flowers, including a large blue daisy, a pink morning glory and buds, a pink and white blossom, deep blue flowers, sprays of red and yellow flowers, and entwined green, yellow and brown stems. Signed dated and made in a limited edition of 25. Diameter: 3 1 8 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : Chris Buzzini 1992: Floral wreath paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923771713.html Rare mini-piedouche paperweight with several concentric rows of different complex canes in red, white, pink and blue, some having green centers. It has a double-swirl latticino pedestal base with two white twisted latticino torsades and a signature date cane. Made in a limited edition of only 25. Height: 2 5 16 quot;; Diameter: 2 5 16. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : Saint Louis 1991: Millefiori mini-piedouche paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923771699.html This 12 1 faceted paperweight has two central light pink apple blossoms, a pink morning glory and its bud, sprigs of forget-me-nots and sprays of blue flowers on a clear ground. Signed dated and made in a limited edition of 25. Diameter: 3 1 8 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : Chris Buzzini 1991: Faceted spring bouquet paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923771695.html This lovely large spring bouquet on clear glass has a rich blue with yellow striped iris, yellow, white, pink and purple crocuses as well as various colored clematis. Signed dated and made in a limited edition of 50. Diameter: 3 11 16 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : Rick Ayotte 1993: Spring bouquet paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923771694.html Three large red poppies are surrounded by delicate yellow flowers, blue and white flowers, and stems in various shades of green on a clear ground. Signed dated and made in a limited edition of 50. Diameter: 3 5 8 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : Rick Ayotte 1991: Red poppy bouquet paperweight http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923770410.html quot;Pecan Picking quot; : acrylic on board 8 quot; x 10 quot; . Signed on the mailbox; dated quot;1983' verso; O.D. with frame 13 quot; x 15 quot;. --One of several hand-written notes by May Kugler on back: quot;My mother had three large pecan trees. When they would thresh them it was always a Sunday and all three of them. I hated to pick pecans. Because it was too much in one day. We would pick sacks of pecans. I'm in the red dress. My mother always had lots of flowers, and chickens. But she was always full of love. quot; www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : May Kugler 1916-2005; LaPlace, Louisiana http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923770409.html quot;Baptism quot; : acrylic on board 8 quot; x 10 quot; . Signed LR; dated quot;1984 quot; verso; O.D. with frame 13 quot; x 15 quot;. --One of several hand-written notes by May Kugler on back: quot; When I was a small child we were not allowed to get out of the yard. But when we would see people walking on the levee and the side walk, we would sneak out, and this is what we saw. The tent with the two tubs is where my mother would wash her clothes when the cistren would dry up. I'm in red in the boat and my cousin and a neighbor boy. My cousin took a fish out of the fish box and told my father the fish jumped up and she caught it. quot; www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : May Kugler 1916-2005; LaPlace, Louisiana http://pages.tias.com/4765/PictPage/3923767556.html A large central Gridel hunter silhouette cane, surrounded by a row of yellow complex canes, a garland of blue Gridel silhouette canes, and then by a peripheral garland of yellow complex canes, rests on a muslin ground. Signature date cane and acid-etched Baccarat mark. Limited edition of less than 350. Diameter: 3 3 8 quot;. www.tias.com/stores/rafa New item at Randall Antiques & Fine Art : Baccarat 1974: Gridel hunter paperweight