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Item: GL-2
This glass sculpture is titled A Faun's Afternoon and was done by Hadeland Glass of Norway. It also has the initials of three of the artists involved, including Gerd Slang and Willy Johannsen. The copper wheel engraving shows a faun playing a flute, done in a style suggesting the cave paintings of Lescaux and some ancient Scandinavian art. It's a fascinating and wonderfully executed design, marked as 10 of 30 made. Height is about 7 1/4". This is a very large, solid piece of glass, coming in about 12 pounds, but the clarity and quality are still suberb.
Condition is fair. There's a very light scratch on the front to the left of the faun's head, and an area low on a back corner appears to have been chipped, possibly ground. It could even be a flaw that was taken care of at the factory. You can see this flaw in the picture of the mark, but the picture exaggerates the look. Neither problem really detracts from the appearance. Of course, all our sales are fully guaranteed.
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