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Drapery-Like Bottle

Date 1st to 3rd century A.D.
Dimensions H. 7.1 cm, D. 2.5 cm
Accession Number 55.1.51 (CMOG)
Credit The Corning Museum of Glass (Cat. 238).
Video Type short
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The drapery-like effect is possible only when the vessel wall is no more than paper-thin. The video shows a thin, bulbous bubble quickly transformed by spinning the blowpipe at exactly the right moment.

Video 16 The drapery-like effect is possible only when the vessel wall is no more than paper-thin. The video shows a thin, bulbous bubble quickly transformed by spinning the blowpipe at exactly the right moment.
Video 16 The drapery-like effect is possible only when the vessel wall is no more than paper-thin. The video shows a thin, bulbous bubble quickly transformed by spinning the blowpipe at exactly the right moment.
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