The vestiges

Almost ten centuries of the history of glass all gathered in a collection of objects; pearls, amulets, cylindrical vessels - all moulded or shaped using rudimentary methods and refined using the tools of sculptors of precious and semi-precious stones.

Even in the absence of specific tools and techniques, stoneworking, ceramics and metal working, which had already evolved considerably, played a major role in the evolution of firing processes, shaping, decoration and in the birth of form and style.

The old glassmakers tried to imitate precious and semi-precious stones (turquoise, cornalene, jasper etc.) using glass and glassmaking techniques and because they had not yet acquired the techniques nor how to conserve their works, it was not surprising that most of the ancient objects are more or less opaque and richly coloured.