(4) Signed American Iridescent Art Glass Vases. Includes a short jack-in-the-pulpit signed by Saul Alcaraz with a Santa Barbara Glass sticker on the underside, a squat vase with a broad mouth and bubble pattern sides signed by Stephen Fellerman, the tallest criss-crossed by string-like shapes potentially signed "Slater," and a uniquely shaped pitcher-plant style vase with a heavily faded signature on the underside. 

Size: (largest) 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. 

Saul Alcaraz was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1974, and first studied at El Colegio De La Frontera Norte before immigrating to the United States in 1991, where he discovered glassblowing at Santa Barbara City College. While working as a roofer and teaching himself English, he met and married the daughter of Mario Real, a renowned glass artist, who took him under his wing and led him to focus on glassblowing full time. Eventually taking over as head of the Santa Barbara Glassblowing Studio, he became internationally famous for his ability to imitate, emulate, and evoke Art Nouveau styles, along with the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dale Chihuly, and many others titans of the Art Glass world. He developed a multi-decade partnership with architect Jeff Shelton to produce works for homes, hotels, and museums across the country, both large and small, including MOXI, the Lightner Museum, the Four Seasons Resorts and Ritz-Carltons. Today he continues to lead the company, with his sons Saul Josiah and Joel producing their own works by his side. 

Stephen Fellerman was born in Manhattan, New York in 1951, immersed in the arts from a young age and first experimenting with ceramics at the Pratt Institute before finding his calling in art glass after traveling to Sausalito, California in 1972. He returned east to Kent, Connecticut in 1973 to open his own glass studio, where he produced thousands of pieces and inspired numerous other artists throughout New England. Since 2007 he and his son Jason have been blowing glass together at a new home studio in Maui, Hawaii, and today his iridescent, Art Nouveau-inspired work can be found in major collections across the country, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the White House Art Archives.

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