Bowl with Grip Handles CMOG 79.1.242

The modest addition of two short trails applied to the rim of a bowl transforms it visually and functionally. Perhaps the grip handles suggest that passing the vessel from one person to another was more common than we might otherwise suspect. In the video, note how the quick casting-off allows the pincered decoration to commence immediately, while the glass is still soft.
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 romanglassblowing.cmog.org.
The resource is a follow-up to Gudenrath's popular Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (renvenetian.cmog.org) and Technique of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (renvenetianstyle.cmog.org/)

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Its beautiful. Always wondered how it was done