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Colorful Serendipity for a School’s Sculpture

It may not be in quite the same league as finding the remains of Richard III under a parking lot in Leicester, or fragments of Chinese pottery dating back 20,000 years. But last week the discovery of a thousand or more shards of colorful Tiffany glass, stumbled on while clearing the site of a former Tiffany factory for a new school building in Corona, Queens, is expected to give a sculpture commissioned for the school more authenticity than originally hoped for by the agency that ordered it and the artist who is making it.

The work, a large piece — roughly 100 linear feet, broken into four or five hefty segments — by the sculptor and installation artist Rita McBride, will stand in the entrance lobby of P.S. 315, near a large, open staircase leading down to the school’s library. The plan calls for it to be visible from both the library and the street, 43rd Avenue at Ninth Place, when the 1,100-student elementary school opens in 2015.