Phoenician Glass Vase (10”) - Sea Blue

A stunning hand-blown glassware piece from the artisans of Hebron Glass Studio, crafted in the traditional Phoenician style. This exquisite vase features colors that shift with the light, adding a unique beauty to any setting. Each piece is hand-crafted, ensuring that no two items are exactly alike, with occasional minor imperfections that add to their distinctiveness. Handwashing only. Please allow for slight color, design and height variations.

Approximately 8”-10” tall.

The city of Hebron is known worldwide for its glassblowers and designers. Glass factories have been a feature of this city since the Middle Ages.

As you enter one of these factories, the temperature rises dramatically because of the furnace (al-furun) located in the center of the factory. The al furun is surrounded by two to four glass blowers who, as though playing a musical instrument, pull the glass out as semi-liquid, and blow through a pipe to form an object. The shaping process continues with a metal instrument (kammasha) and the vessel is complete. Then the glass is put aside into a small chamber adjacent to the furnace to cool down. This process is repeated every two to three minutes in an amazingly fluid movement in spite of the intense heat.