Drinking Horn (Rhyton) CMOG 87.1.2
Corning Museum of Glass Corning Museum of Glass
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 Published On Jan 29, 2024

The technique of conjoining two bubbles of molten glass is used to make a compound object: a playful drinking glass called a rhyton. The video shows how the blowpipe used to make the foot is, toward the end of the process, also employed effectively as a punty, or handle, while the vessel’s rim is being created.

In Jerusalem, sometime about 40 B.C., it was discovered that molten glass could be inflated. To make this phenomenon useful and practical, manufacturing processes had to be invented. This occurred during a rapid expansion of the Roman Empire that eventually included the entire Mediterranean Basin and extended to the far eastern coast: present-day Israel. Through an extensive trade of goods and the widespread movement of people and know-how, glassblowing found its way to the Italian peninsula. It took root and developed quickly. Glassblowing spread to become—then, as now—the predominant method of making glass vessels. Learn more at https://romanglassblowing.cmog.org.

The resource is a follow-up to Gudenrath's popular Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (https://renvenetian.cmog.org) and Technique of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (https://renvenetianstyle.cmog.org/)

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