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Rose Roads and Josh Sable: "East Meets West One" Size: 1.81" Price: SOLD


This is your chance to own one of the most legendary collab marbles ever created, one of THE ORIGINAL 10 marbles from the East Meets West Project, the collabs which literally started it all and brought Junichi Kojima, aka Rose Roads, into mainstream American glass art. Jun's work had not been in American glass AT ALL before this set of marbles that I commissioned to be created by 5 of the best American glass artists. Jun specially created 10 of his icy blue cabs for me and then I gave 2 each to Mike Gong, Gateson Recko, Josh Sable, John Kobuki and Josh Sable. A set of 5 went into my collection and the other 5 were made available to the public. This is historical marbledom at its finest right here, a VERY rare opportunity!

Josh is the original marble collaboration master, he's been doing it for a decade now, and this collaboration with Rose Roads is the ultimate masterpiece from him. Josh's best designs are all wrapped up into this marble, and it shines! This is serisouly one of THE most absolutely beautiful marbles I have ever seen in my life. Sooo stunning, and it is SO hard to believe that glass like this could be created, much less wrapped up into a perfect sphere!

To start off, the Rose Roads half is exquisite, and it is the only one of the bunch that incorporates some other interesting colors into the design, which are wonderfully matched by the colors Josh chose for his part of the marble. If anybody ever finishes counting how many dots are in that design, please tell me, because it...is......A....LOT!! Then check out Josh's flower retticello with pulled dots - WOW!!! Stunningly beautiful work, with those gold fumed dots highlighting everything you see. The millie master then included two rows of his fantastic millie pinwheeled around the equator. Not just any millie, but a complex wigwag and a type of fillacello millie that Josh created just in time for this project. Incredible work!

This marble is a modern marble masterpiece, one you won't want to miss out on!

You can also view a sweet HD video of the marble! Click on the first pic and then scroll down and you'll see the video below the picture. You can select a lower video quality for faster loading if you desire. Select 720p for HD.

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