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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2204616, member: 42773&quot;]This isn&#039;t coin related, but for those of you interested in all things ancient, I visited the Corning Museum of Glass yesterday and saw this fascinating exhibit.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the article...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">At the end of the first century B.C., glassmakers working in the environs of Jerusalem made a revolutionary breakthrough in the way glass was made. They discovered that glass could be inflated at the end of a hollow tube. This technical achievement—glassblowing—made the production of glass vessels much quicker and easier, and allowed glassmakers to develop new shapes and decorative techniques.</font></p><p><font size="3">.</font></p><p><font size="3">.</font></p><p><font size="3">.</font></p><p><font size="3">Among the earliest workshops to design and create mold-blown glass was one in which a man named Ennion worked. Ennion was the first glassmaker to sign his glass objects by incorporating his name into the inscriptions that formed part of the mold’s design, and thus he stands among a small group of glass workers whose names have come down to us from antiquity.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>I was astonished by the remarkably delicate and beautiful pieces in this exhibit - a few were on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You can see them all here...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cmog.org/collection/exhibitions/ennion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cmog.org/collection/exhibitions/ennion" rel="nofollow"><font size="5"><b>Ennion and His Legacy: Mold-Blown Glass from Ancient Rome</b></font></a></p><p><br /></p><p>This bowl, colored with cobalt was one of my favorites...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]429944[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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