Title: Antique Pharmacy Mortar Hand Blown Glass Deep-Green Vessel
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Unassigned
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 1650s to 1800s
Item ID: 902
This beautiful antique Pharmacy glass mortar has one of the most spectacular old Deep-Green colorers you are ever likely to find. Antique pharmacy glass vessel. Antique medicine vessel in a heavy, thick deep-green glass. 17th-18th Century antique pharmacy glass mortar used for measuring, holding, grinding herbs and preparing medicines. In excellent condition.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassblowing
As a novel glass forming technique created in the middle of the 1st century B.C., glassblowing exploited a working property of glass which was previously unknown to the glassworkers. A full range of glassblowing techniques was developed within decades of its invention. The glassblowing tradition was carried on in Europe from the medieval period through the Renaissance. During the early medieval period, the Franks manipulated the technique of glassblowing by creating the simple corrugated moulds and developing the claws decoration techniques. Blown glass objects, such as the drinking vessels that imitated the shape of the animal horn were produced in the Rhine and Meuse valleys, as well as in Belgium.
