Ennion: Ancient Master Of Glassblowing And His Legacy

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Among the earliest workshops that designed and created mold-blown glass was the one that belonged to Ennion, but even before him, there were other glassblowers.

The earliest evidence of glassblowing comes from a collection of waste from a glass shop, including fragments of glass rods, glass tubes, and tiny blown bottles. The remains of this collection were dumped in a mikvah, a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Ennion was an ancient glassblower, a well-known glass craftsman, and a true master who lived and worked in the first half of the early century AD. He was known for his high-quality antique glass artworks. His creations had beautiful shapes.

Ennion created elegant molded glass vases reproducing the embossed decorations of the precious Alexandrian containers of chiseled or engraved metal. He decorated his small, elegantly shaped flasks, jars, cups, bowls, pitchers, and beakers with remarkably modern-looking floral and geometric designs.

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