Topic: Amazing - you'd have said this was made yesterday...not 7th century BC !!

[flying free]

I'm always in awe seeing these pieces made so many centuries ago.
They look so contemporary.  Maybe glass artists have always been way ahead of their time.
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http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/45378/Sand-core-glass-bowl-found-in-the-Bernardini-tomb-?search_context=%7B%22url%22%3A%22%5C%2Fsearch%5C%2Fcategory%5C%2FGlass%5C%2F1357%3Fpage_num%3D7%22%2C%22num_results%22%3A%22942%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22category_assets%22%2C%22category_id%22%3A%221357%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A425%7D

[davem]

Wow so beautiful , thanks for sharing !

[chopin-liszt]

lust... lust... lust........!

[glassobsessed]

Not sure about that description, it looks blown to me not core formed, if so it won't be that old.

John

[kitty-kat1234]

Amazing piece,i just had to look up the history of glass & found this,hope you dont mind me putting in a link 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass

And i hope it works.
I think this piece is amazing also,how talented were people way back then.
cheers kat

[glassobsessed]

Not at all, a fascinating subject as far as I am concerned.

I have not been able to find a core formed bowl of any description in the couple of books I have which deal with the history of glassmaking. There are bowls from a roughly similar time period which are slumped or cast so I think either would be more likely than core formed. In this case I think cast looks favourite, perhaps a technique similar to lost wax. I could imagine Daum making something quite like it in the early 20th century....

To own a bit of glass like that in that time period would have been serious bling, very high status.

John