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"Dragon Bay Mini" Size: 1.42" Price: SOLD

This is Zach's latest and by far greatest murrine image to date. It....is.....INCREDIBLE. Prior to this Chelsea has done all of their super complex 'stringer stacked' murrine, and this is the first time that Zach has gone all out on an image as astoundingly complex as this one. Don't get me wrong, Zach has done many awesome images already, many of them using the hot method, but this one is over the top and beyond any of those. The detail in this image is really mind-boggling.

The image is largely based on a Hiroshige woodcut from the 1850's. Hiroshige was a masterful Japanese artist himself, and Zach took that genius and added his own genius embellishments to it. Wonderful details, beautiful colors, and whimsical and fun at the same time! What's even more amazing is that a couple of the colors Zach used, mainly the red and enamel white, are reacting in an interesting way to provide some bas-relief to the image so that it actually looks somewhat 3D when you look at it under magnification in hand. You gotta see it, it is fascinating. This is the mini version of Zach's work, which includes on the backside the supporting murrine he created specifically for this image, the ship and the torii gateway. This murrine image and marble are instantly one of the great glass works of all time, and a must for your collection!!
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