When the art of glassblowing was introduced to the Roman Empire, it took off. Not only utensils were made with it, but also beautiful luxury objects. “If you look at this very small vase before this, you think what strange ears that vase has. It is a small vase from the first century AD. And it has those strange ears because that is an imitation of the leather threads that were made around the bottle so you could attach it to your belt to take it with you. So they copied that in glass. By the way, you should never lift a glass vase by the handles, that is the weakest point. there is a vase from 1939, also with crazy ears, designed by Joep Nicolas.”
Modern or thousands of years old? Guessing about glass in the Glass Museum in Leerdam
