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How to make a glass fish replica
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Watch Bill Gudenrath recreate a 2,000-year-old glass fish vessel from Afghanistan using traditional glassblowing techniques. This rare demonstration shows how ancient artisans shaped delicate glass forms, offering insight into historical craftsmanship.
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Glass blowing was invented around 50 BC and revolutionised the production of glass vessels.
Watch Bill Gudenrath, a glass specialist at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, make a copy of one of the fish-shaped vessels found at Begram, Afghanistan.
This is the first time anyone has tried to replicate it.
See the original glass fish on display in the exhibition Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World until 17 July 2011.
Watch Bill Gudenrath, a glass specialist at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, make a copy of one of the fish-shaped vessels found at Begram, Afghanistan.
This is the first time anyone has tried to replicate it.
See the original glass fish on display in the exhibition Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World until 17 July 2011.
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The British Museum published this 8:40 video tutorial on November 9, 2011. It has been watched 3,957,572 times on YouTube.
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