Beetle with long antenna

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Beetle with long antenna

Artist Vittorio Costantini (Italian, born 1944)

Place of OriginItaly, Venice

Date1989-1990

DimensionsH: 4 in.

MediumMulti-colored non-lead glass; flameworked.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Philip and Nancy L. Williams in memory of Page Hazlegrove

Object number

2013.24

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DescriptionOpaque black, reddish brown non-lead glasses, green iridescent metal foil; flameworked with metallic inclusions. Life-size insect; small black head, reddish-brown applied eyes, pair of long thin antennae extend out and curve back past length of body; short black ovoid front half, sharply waisted to narrow elongated rear section tapering to a point, top has metallic inclusion, a central crease and shallow parallel ridges; three pairs of articulated black legs, one pair on front lobe extending forward, two pair on rear lobe, extending back.

Published ReferencesCf. Frantz, Susanne K., Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass, Henry Abrams: 1989, p. 207 (illustrated).