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Object NameMale Jester Musician

Artist Lucio Bubacco (Italian, b. 1957)

Made FromGlass

Date1991

Place MadeItaly

Techniqueflameworked

SizeOverall H: 13 cm

Accession Number91.3.72 D

Credit LineGift of Susanne K. Frantz

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

The Magic of the Lamp: Flameworked Objects from the Permanent Collection

The Studio at 20

Not On View

Physical DescriptionOpaque light blue, white, pink (several shades), brown, and black, transparent bluish gray, colorless glasses; flameworked. Jester, dancing as he plays mandolin. Male, with left foot resting on conical base and right knee raised in dance, looking back and downward over right shoulder; he wears jester's clothes: light blue and pink three-horned cap with black bells at ends of horns, brown long-nosed mask over eyes and nose, blue and pink long-sleeved shirt with right sleeve blue and left sleeve pink, hose with right leg pink and left leg blue; and pointed shoes with black bells at ends, right shoe blue and left shoe pink; his left hand supports brown and white mandolin with black bridge and keys, which he plucks with right hand; base consists of cone, edge of which has been drawn outward and downward at four equidistant points; impressed on underside of base: "B L".
Provenance

Source Susanne K. Frantz - 1991