Bidspirit auction | William Ravencroft Sharles Hand-Painted ”Fallen

William Ravencroft Sharles Hand-Painted ”Fallen Iris Bouquet Vase” Bronze - Marked on the bottom, but obscured by a felt pad.  Signed and numbered along bottom of the vase.  Limited Edition: 29/45   Height: Approx. 22”  Weight: 49lbs   Condition: The vase is in very good condition. Please see images for details.    Artist Bio: Sharles — William Ravenscroft Sharles (1940–2023) — was a self-taught American sculptor who worked in Loveland, Colorado, a major center of American bronze casting, and learned the craft by watching the sculptors working there. He is known for polychrome bronze vessels with botanical subjects, irises above all, in which the flowers, leaves and stems are modelled fully in the round and the surface is finished in bright applied color rather than a conventional patina — the opposite of the usual bronze treatment, and the reason the vases read as objects rather than as sculpture of flowers. He issued them in limited editions over a career of more than three decades.