HAH I FINISHED IT. Will have to get Real Pictures outside when the sun returns. I learned I need to use more strongly textured glass at that scale but overall this has been my smoothest sailing stained glass yet. Straight edges help a lot.
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This is so.. ! Such a fragile object in the shape of such a fragile creature surviving through the centuries intact.
"Roman glass unguentarium in the form of a dove, containing the remains of a balsam.
Sealed since its manufacture, containing the remains of balsam and the liquid in which it was once suspended. The vessel would be blown and filled through either the open tail or beak, which would then be reheated to seal it. Accessing the contents would require snapping off the beak or tail, which in this case was never done. Dated to the 2nd half of the 1st c. CE. Found at Rovasenda (Vc).Museo di Antichità di Torino (alias Museo Archeologico Nazionale del Piemonte), Italy."
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Stained Glass Works by LENA ZAYCMAN
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This is made of glass
Blaschka Glass Models of Plants exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
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From top to bottom, left to right:
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A photo of a large pitcher plant sculpture sitting in a case of glass and dark wood on a white background in a museum exhibit. The plant is photographed from below, so the plant's roots and bottom of the purple and yellow pitchers are in the foreground. The stems, leaves, and flowers are seen from below.
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A close-up photo of the leaves and pitchers, taken from above the pitchers.
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There are two signs to the left of the sculpture of the pitcher plant. The first and larger sign reads:
From the Hands of the Makers
Over the course of fifty years, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, father and son, continually experimented with materials and methods that pushed the boundaries of glassworking. After his father's death in 1895, Rudolf continued to refine glass formulations, experiment with pigments and varnishes, and create his own palette of colored glass enamels. He produced this Great Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes maxima (right), the largest and most complicated model in the collection, using many of his innovative techniques.
The smaller plaque identifies the artwork and reads:
Nepenthes maxima (Great Pitcher Plant)
Indonesia, New Guinea & Philippines
by Rudolf Blauschka, 1906
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Half life snark in glorious glass
First time using selective patina AND decorative wire, what a blast (>_<)
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