WHOLESALE VASES

Wholesale vases have some unique products of which Trumpet is one.

Trumpet's centerpiece brings charm to any table for any occasion as an exciting addition to the ZX Decor line. Each vase is beautifully hand blown and made by high quality raw materials.

Where and how glassware was first produced is largely a matter of conjecture. Pliny, the Roman historian, described how Phoenician traders, camping on a sandy shore, took blocks of natron (soda used in the embalming process) from their cargo to balance their cooking pots. The natron in the fire and fused with the sand to form a glass. This may be legend but there is no doubt that Phoenicians were accomplished glassmakers. The earliest recorded glass finds are beads of around 2500 BC, reputedly from Mesopotamia.

The Egyptians set great store by the magical potency of color. Using copper and cobalt oxides, they made brilliant turquoise and blue glass for use as inlays in artifacts and furniture or to be molded and beads and amulets, the molding processes they devised predated French pate de verre by some there thousand years and involved fusing powdered glass in clay moulds. In this way small solid blocks or ingots could be produced for subsequent carving.

Glass objects were rare luxury items that were considered even more valuable than gems they replaced. The first surviving vessels are three small jug-shaped phials from the tomb to Tuthmosis III c 1500 BC. These were made to contain rare and precious perfumes, unguents and other cosmetics, such as kohl, the forerunner of mascara or eye-shadow, rare commodities possessed only by royalty, the priesthood and the privileged classes. These tiny and charming vessels were made by a method known as the sand core or core-forming technique, most probably derived from the bead-making process.

During the Hellenistic period the major glass-making centers were Sidon (Lebanon) and Alexandria (Egypt), the latter renowned for the variety of its luxury glassware. These made extensive use of established lapidary techniques and through for the most part utilitarian, were regarded as objects of great aesthetic.