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Wholesale vases have some unique products of which Trumpet
is one.
Trumpet’s
centerpiece brings
charm to any table
for any occasion
as an exciting addition
to the Zimax line.
Each vase is beautifully
hand blown and made
by high quality
raw materials.
Where and
how glassware was
first produced is
largely a matter
of conjecture. Pliny,
the Roman historian,
described how Phoenician
traders, camping
on a sandy shore,
took blocks of natron
(soda used in the
embalming process)
from their cargo
to balance their
cooking pots. The
natron in the fire
and fused with the
sand to form a glass.
This may be legend
but there is no
doubt that Phoenicians
were accomplished
glassmakers. The
earliest recorded
glass finds are
beads of around
2500 BC, reputedly
from Mesopotamia.
The Egyptians
set great store
by the magical potency
of color. Using
copper and cobalt
oxides, they made
brilliant turquoise
and blue glass for
use as inlays in
artifacts and furniture
or to be molded
and beads and amulets,
the molding processes
they devised predated
French pate de verre
by some there thousand
years and involved
fusing powdered
glass in clay moulds.
In this way small
solid blocks or
ingots could be
produced for subsequent
carving.
Glass objects
were rare luxury
items that were
considered even
more valuable than
gems they replaced.
The first surviving
vessels are three
small jug-shaped
phials from the
tomb to Tuthmosis
III c 1500 BC. These
were made to contain
rare and precious
perfumes, unguents
and other cosmetics,
such as kohl, the
forerunner of mascara
or eye-shadow, rare
commodities possessed
only by royalty,
the priesthood and
the privileged classes.
These tiny and charming
vessels were made
by a method known
as the sand core
or core-forming
technique, most
probably derived
from the bead-making
process.
During
the Hellenistic
period the major
glass-making centers
were Sidon (Lebanon)
and Alexandria (Egypt),
the latter renowned
for the variety
of its luxury glassware.
These made extensive
use of established
lapidary techniques
and through for
the most part utilitarian,
were regarded as
objects of great
aesthetic.
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