Lovely Roman glass, with light pressed into it. You can read time in its very fabric, but it wears the millenia well.
It's the shifting and the separating of its elements, they say, that gives the glass its luminosity; the patina is not inherent but acquired through its interactions with water and heat and earth over the years since it was made.
Nice to think that the extremities of our environment give us these irridescent colors too, as we weather and wear.
It's the shifting and the separating of its elements, they say, that gives the glass its luminosity; the patina is not inherent but acquired through its interactions with water and heat and earth over the years since it was made.
Nice to think that the extremities of our environment give us these irridescent colors too, as we weather and wear.
image: Pitcher. Glass, Late Antiquity. Found in a grave in the Trastevere, area of the Conservatorio di San Pasquale. Jastrow
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