Victor Trabucco
Salamander

A dark green, three-dimensional lizard crawls over a rocky earth ground with an upright plant featuring a pink flower with yellow filaments and black anthers on emerald green leaves.1999.Diameter 5".

Trabucco's magnum lizard weight was inspired by the rare Pantin reptiles. His main objective was not to merely duplicate their work but to pick up where they left off. He is the first maker to master the art of encasing such a large subject in glass. (LH Selman: All about Paperweights.ISBN 0-933756-17-8)

The lizard paperweight is the one, which I feel had the most impact on my career. The lizard has over five hundred scales, which are applied one at a time to create the organic effect of the body. The environment of the piece is completed with the earth ground and the dimensional plant. (V.Trabucco: Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc. 2000)

Provenance:
Portia Paperweights, Inc.
1702 N.Damen Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60647
www.portiapaperweights.com