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Paperweight with Lizard and Flower

Paperweight with Lizard and Flower

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Lizard and Flower
Department
Modern
Category
Paperweights
Place Made: 
United States, Clarence, NY
Date: 
1990
Color
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colorless
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brown
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pink
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opaque white glass
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yellow
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green
Technique
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lampworking
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.8 cm, Diam (max): 12.4 cm
Accession Number: 
90.4.243
Credit Line: 
Gift of Victor Trabucco
Location: 
On Display
Description
Paperweight with Lizard and Flower. Colorless, opaque, yellow-green, pink, brown, white non-lead glasses; flameworked and cased. Globular shape of colorless glass, enclosing a yellow-green lizard with mottled skin and curled tail; standing alongside a plant with curved strap leaves and pink multi-petaled flower; on a mottled white and brown ground; tiny millefiori cane inserted on the opposite side, inscribed "VT"; polished, concave base; inscribed (scratched) "VICTOR Trabucco 1990."
Provenance
Trabucco, Victor ((American, b. 1949)), Source to
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit

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