Featuring a curated selection of 700 items, Fontaines will highlight the spring season with a two-day auction on back-to-back weekends, with each offering 350 lots. The first session will take place on Saturday, May 22, at 11 a.m., followed a week later on Saturday, May 29, also at 11 a.m. The first session will include 19th- and 20th-century lighting, art glass, leaded glass windows, timepieces, marble and bronze statuary, and American and European furniture. The second session will offer paintings, fine silver, porcelains, gold and diamond jewelry, American and European wood carvings and art pottery. We have been gathering items from coast to coast over the last few months and have acquired many high-quality works from renowned artists and makers, said John Fontaine, owner of Fontaines Auction Gallery. We have our always anticipated diversified selection of fine and decorative art items. Tiffany Studios items are always a solid performer, and this sale will feature over 60 of them, including a Moorish chandelier (est. $40,0000-$60,000), ca. 1905, with 16 shades, measuring 34.5-by-24 inches, and a 12-light Lily table lamp (est. $30,000-$50,000), 21 inches tall. Small Tiffany objects often command big prices, and this sale features an Aquamarine paperweight (est. $20,000-$30,000), ca. 1918, measuring 6-by-6 inches. Featured leaded glass windows crossing the block will include a Tiffany Studios Sunset and Evening Star leaded and stained glass window (est. $40,000-$60,000), ca. 1910, measuring 49.75-by-30.5 inches (window). Several by John La Farge are also on offer, including a pair of leaded chunk jewel glass windows (est. $20,000-$30,000) having flowers, scrollwork and geometric panels, ca. 1880, each 36.75-by-17 inches; and one leaded chunk jewel window decorated with flowers, ribbons and geometric panels, 35.25-by-23.25 inches. The clock category is led by a monumental English carved oak tall case clock (est. $80,000-$120,000) having a pair of 3-foot-tall putti at the base flanking a central medallion of Sir William Whittington and a date of 1793, standing 11 feet, 10 inches tall. Also highlighting the sale is an R.J. Horner & Co. grandfather clock (est. $50,000-$75,000), ca. 1890, in carved mahogany, having a dial signed Joseph Jennens, Skinner Street, Clerkenwell London. The case is decorated with winged griffins, female caryatids, scrollwork, filigree and the crest with two maidens flanking a cartouche shield, 120 inches tall. Fine and decorative arts offerings in the first session will be led by a William Randolph Barbee (American, 1818-68) marble bust of Venus (est. $30,000-$50,000), signed and dated Barbee, 1858, standing 26.5 inches tall; a silver sculpture, The Outlaw, after Frederic Remington (est. $20,000-$30,000), 21.5 inches tall; and a Carlo Scarpa A Macchie glass bowl (est. $30,000-$40,000), hand-blown and ca. 1942, having a 9.75-inch diameter. The second session will start off strong with several fine European paintings, including an oil on board Paris street scene by Edouard Leon Cortes (est. $20,000-$30,000), 19-by-31.5 inches (sight), and a Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky (est. $20,000-$30,000) oil-on-canvas laid on board, Figures by the Water, 17.75-by-23.75 inches (sight). Among unusual and striking items in the sale is a Lithgow family silver hilted sword (est. $20,000-$30,000), ca. 1730, 33 inches long, made by Andrew Tyler Bastin. Its cross-guard is inscribed Capt. Wm. Lithgow/R.L. 1701, and it is accompanied by a letter from the Massachusetts Historical Society noting its research. Also making a strong design statement is a carved fruitwood cherub mirror from the studio of Valentino Panciera Besarel (est. $10,000-$15,000), 62-by-49 inches. From the same artists studio comes a ca. 1865 carved wood standing figure on a plinth, 66 inches tall. Rounding out the auction will be a pair of E.F. Caldwell bronze candle stands (est. $20,000-$30,000), 54 inches tall, and a pair of porcelain urns attributed to Tucker Factory (est. $15,000-$25,000), ca. 1830, standing 22 inch tall. Fontaines Auction Gallery is located at 1485 W. Housatonic St. (Route 20), Pittsfield, Mass. For more information, visit www.FontainesAuction.com or call 413-448-8922.