Can you believe that this Fish-Shaped Bottle was made during the Eighteenth Dynasty circa 1350 BCE? It looks amazingly similar to a blown glass fish that I purchased at a local festival!
Egyptians experimented with many types of glass art; but it is unknown when or where the technique of glass making first developed.
This fish was made using a technique known as core glass where a shape was made from clay, skewered, then dipped into molten glass. When the glass dried the clay was removed from the holes left by the skewer.
It amazes me both that there is art created so long ago that looks similar to pieces created today, and that people who lived in a time before grocery stores, and modern appliances found the time to invest in hobbies such as art!
2 comments:
You are definitely right about art from the past being so much more meaningful and amazing. The fact they people created objects like this fish bottle with just the use of their bare hands and brain power is just mind blowing! Perhaps that is why we today appreciate pieces like this so much more because we will never know the feeling having to create something without any use of modern technology. I really liked your blog!
I still can't believe that fish is made out of glass. It doesn't look fragile at all though I assume it is. I agree that the things people can do with so few resources and such horrendous technology is astounding even today.
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