Dugan Butterfly & Tulip Purple Square Bowl

I purchased this masterpiece from Gary Heavin in September 2014 who tells me it once belonged to Stacy Wills back in 2007. I was overcome by its beauty from the moment I saw it. I'd never seen one that moved me to buy it until this one.

Auctioneer Jim Wroda recalls, "I've known this bowl since 1989.. BY FAR the best one I have ever seen. the iridesence is like hand painted art. It came from a house in Marietta, Ohio where it resided for more than 30 years. before I was able to get it. Once Stacy saw it he grabbed it. I didn't know you had this piece of Dugan Art Glass, glad you do...Congrats."

The intricacy of the pattern can be appreciated if you click onto a picture and then click on it again to see the amazing details, especialy of the butterfly and the leaves of the tulips. Its tulips are really dreamy in true Dugan fashion. The butterfly is outlined with flattened lines, like the Soda Gold pattern, which reflects a tremendous amount of iridescence and highlights the butterfly.

It sits pretty on four ball feet. This bowl measures 10 3/4" wide and 13" on the diagonal. It's a hefty, good size bowl for sure. These are usually found in this square shape but they were also made round or with two-sidesup, known as a banana bowl shape. The back is not iridized but has a really pretty pattern called Inverted Feather & Fan.

Marigold is the only other color known. There is also an "only one known" Butterfly & Tulip in peach opal that sits in the Karen Engel collection to be sold at ACGA in their 2017 convention auction by Jim Wroda auctioneer. It, too, was once owned by Gary Heavin. Jackie Poucher owned it before him and John Rogers before her. 

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