Remaking an ancient glass fish at the Corning Museum of Glass

In a first from March 2011, Bill Gudenrath of the Corning Museum of Glass attempts to make a copy of one of the fish-shaped glass pieces displayed in The British Museum‘s 2011 Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World. 

During the exhibition of over 200 objects (pdf) that were on loan from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul — some from between the 3rd century BC and 1st century AD — the museum showcased “nineteen of the roughly 180 glass vessels found in the ancient Kushan storerooms at Begram,” including three of these fish:

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