Title: Pate de Verre Toad Sculpture by Thomas McPhee
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Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 2006
Item ID: 1881
This little toad is realistic enough to hop right off your desk top. This is a highly detailed pate de verre sculpture of a toad by Thomas McPhee. The toad is done in green glass and has considerable depth and a kind of internal glow.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_casting
Glass casting is the process in which "cast glass" objects, either functional or artistic, are produced by allowing molten glass to solidify in a mould, (a process called casting). This technique has been used since the Egyptian period.
Pate de verre is a form of kiln casting and literally translated means glass paste. In this process, finely crushed glass is mixed with a binding material, such as a mixture of gum arabic and water, and often with colourants and enamels. The resultant paste is applied to the inner surface of a negative mould forming a coating. After the coated mould is fired at the appropriate temperature the glass is fused creating a hollow object that can have thick or thin walls depending on the thickness of the pate de verre layers.
