Butterfly Girl

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Butterfly Girl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
82.4.63
Dimensions: 
H: 27.4 cm, W: 21 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1973
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr.
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; cast, cut, copperwheel engraved. Butterfly wing teardrop shape; on one side is engraved a winged nude girl surrounded by her tresses of hair; on the opposite side the surface is scalloped with ridges representing the structure of a butterfly wing; signed on base in script "Steuben 8-20".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Beinecke, Edwin J., Jr., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
cast, cut, copperwheel engraved
casting
cut glass

Publications (4)

Uncovering treasures in the Empire State (1999) p. 133, fig. 10; BIB# AI43699
The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993) illustrated, p. 34, #50; BIB# 35681
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1982 (1983) p. 7; BIB# AI97140
Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (1982 edition) (1982) p. 10, col. pl. 10; BIB# 21935