#glass model

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:

Two 19th century glass models from the Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates, on display at Harvard Museum of Natural History:

1. Atlantic White-spotted

Octopus (Callistoctopus Macropus)

MCZ SC#381

2. Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa)

MCZ SC#364

[nightmar-y]

Specimen of Blaschka Marine Life: Physophora magnifica (Nr. 213), Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Glass. Dresden Germany, 1885.

credit: Corning Museum of Glass

[ltwilliammowett]

Victorian Model of a Ship (Frigger) totally made from spun glass, it has four sailors climing up the rigging and there is a lighthouse behind the ship, c. 1860

[dame-de-pique]

Charles Coles - Actissa Princeps (glass model)

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼:

Compass Jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella), native to coastal temperate NE Atlantic Ocean.

1. Plate XXVII from Philip Henry Gosse's (English, 1810-1888) A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, 1853

2. glass model from the Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate Models, c. 1882

[ltwilliammowett]

A glass model of HMS Victory, late 19th century (c) NMM

Novelty lampworked glass model of HMS Victory in a domed wooden case. She wears a Union flag at the foremast, the flag of an Admiral of the White at the main and the white ensign at her stern. A slightly more accurate model than the typical sort produced by itinerant Victorian lampworkers.

[ltwilliammowett]

A Nailsea glass frigger (made from leftover glass) of a three masted ship together with a smaller vessel, 19th century

[ayanos-pl]

ブラシュカ（父子）によるタコのガラス模型（大英自然史博物館蔵）

ガラス工芸家、レオポルド（父）とルドルフ（子）のブラシュカ父子によるガラス模型。生物標本の多くは生きていたときの色彩を失ってしまう。カラー映像がまだなかった時代、この模型には生きたマダコの色彩を保存するという科学的役割があった。