A six-pound gold nugget and an 800-pound glass chair were big draws at a dazzling edition of the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show over the weekend.

An unnamed buyer rushed in for the gold with a sum near the $400,000 asking price and whisked the shiny treasure away before the show ended on Sunday.

Named the 'Butte nugget' for the Northern California county where it was unearthed by an unidentified prospector, the potato-shaped gold was sold by dealer David McCarthy to a "prominent Bay Area collector." It could be the biggest California nugget discovered in recent memory.

An ode to San Francisco's Gold Rush past, this year's show theme was The Rush of Gold: Precious Metals in Art and Antiques. Plenty of shiny objects were offered by a fine group of 60 exhbitors, from a massive 18th-c. Italian gilt frame at Kentucky-based Jayne Thompson Antiques to a folky cherub carving and a horse weathervane at American Garage of LA.

Another gold nugget, smaller than the "Butte" beauty, but more sculptural in form, could be found at the booth of Clive Devenish. The Nevada-based dealer, who is a son of the late legendary New York dealer Tom Devenish,  was at the fair for a second year. He also brought a huge trove of fun and fascinating 19th-c. mechanical banks. They are harder to come by these days, says Devenish.

The back of the fair hosted two popular booths. One was Chicago's Finnegan Gallery which was chock-full of garden ornaments and architectural items. Most of this greenery-filled booth was red-dotted by the end of the fair, including the sales of a grinning 19th-c. German garden gnome and an exquisite Belgian swan.

Mallett Antiques of London, also at the fair's back, truly captured the San Francisco aesthetic in a booth that was eclectic and sophisticated with innovative design spanning centuries. There was a pair of chairs in the manner of Ico Parisi and a rare living room suite by Jules Leleu. The stand-out was the glass lounge chair, an homage to Marc Newsom. Called Glacier Chair, Brodie Neill's creation is the largest piece of cast glass in the world, according to Mallett.

Sleek, clear, and strong, the piece is of solid glass, and it balanced gracefully (unattached) on a tiny pedestal. Visitors clambored all over it. Even with a low six-figure price tag, the chair's top edge was allowed to be a perch for jumping children. Glacier Chair was magnetic.