Bird-shaped vessel (family) [electronic resource] / Corning Museum of Glass.

Title: 
Bird-shaped vessel (family) [electronic resource] / Corning Museum of Glass.

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Publisher: 
Corning, N.Y. : Corning Museum of Glass, 2011.
Description: 
1 streaming video file (2 min.) : digital, sd., col.
Other Authors: 
Whitehouse, David, 1941-2013.
Corning Museum of Glass.
Format of Material: 
Video
Subjects: 
Corning Museum of Glass.
Glassware, Roman.
Glass blowing and working History.
Decorative glass processes. YKM
Bib ID: 
131660
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Location: 
Streaming Video
Call Number: 
No call number available
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Notes: 
Title from resource description page.
Mode of access: internet.
Narrator, David Whitehouse, former curator, The Corning Museum of Glass.
David Whitehouse describes an ancient Roman form of packaging. It was filled with perfume, then the tail was sealed by heating it in a flame. To extract the perfume, the user broke off the tip of the tail.
Not commercially distributed.

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Related to CMoG object: 66.1.223.