Esther's photos with the keyword: of

The Sunday Challenge: Take a photograph from behind the subject you are photographing. Takashi Murakami exhibition at the Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, MA - Dragon in Clouds — Red Mutation A20171231 110109

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY AIMG 6669

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY AIMG 6670

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY - Made in Vienna, Austria with Arabic inscription around 1876. For more information, see: www.cmog.org/artwork/covered-vase-1 AIMG 6674

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY Created around 1320 to 1330 in Egypt or Syria. "Enameled and gilded glass is the most celebrated type of glass from the Islamic world. During the 13th and 14th centuries, in a region that now includes Egypt and Syria, Ayyubid and Mamluk glassmakers lavished their creative efforts on generously proportioned and richly painted objects. The shape of this handled vase and its parallels is unknown in Mamluk metal and ceramic production, and it has been suggested that the glassmakers were inspired by Chinese ceramic vases with dragon handles. The decorative composition of the vase is particularly well balanced. It consists of lively schools of fish at the top and bottom, a prominent inscription, a heraldic six-petaled rosette, and staggered circular medallions that enlarge proportionally with the body of the object. The rosette has been interpreted as the emblem of several Mamluk emirs." - www.cmog.org/artwork/vase-114 AIMG 6673

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY - Moorish Bathers. England, Amblecote, Thomas Webb & Sons, carved and engraved by George Woodall, 1898.\ AIMG 6676

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY AIMG 6658

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY AIMG 6645

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY AIMG 6588

Lampworking at the Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY "Lampworking is a type of glasswork where a torch or lamp is primarily used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking, as the modern practice no longer uses oil-fueled lamps. Although lack of a precise definition for lampworking makes it difficult to determine when this technique was first developed, the earliest verifiable lampworked glass is probably a collection of beads thought to date to the fifth century BC. Lampworking became widely practiced in Murano, Italy in the 14th century. In the mid 19th century lampwork technique was extended to the production of paperweights, primarily in France, where it became a popular art form, still collected today. Lampworking differs from glassblowing in that glassblowing uses a furnace as the primary heat source, although torches are also used." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampworking AIMG 6574

Art glass at the Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY AIMG 6583