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	Estee Lauder Beautiful Body Lotion Pump Bottle 2.5 oz Fragrances > Women $12.99 Bids: 0 End time: 28-Aug-10 20:43:00 PDT
	Vintage Guerlain Paris SHALIMAR Perfume Bottle In Box Perfumes > Decorative Glass/Crystal $9.99 Bids: 0 End time: 05-Aug-10 20:39:38 PDT
	CK be Collector's Bottle Calvin Klein Perfume Cologne Fragrances > Unisex $33.95 Bids: 0 End time: 28-Aug-10 20:37:17 PDT
	ANTIQUE MT WASHINGTON "NAPOLI" 8" PERFUME BOTTLE North American > Pairpoint, Mt. Washington $99.99 Bids: 0 End time: 01-Aug-10 20:32:31 PDT
	FIRST de VAN CLEEF & ARPELS EDP used PERFUME BOTTLE p28 Perfumes > Commercial Bottles/Tins $17.95 Bids: 0 Best Offer Enabled End time: 28-Aug-10 20:31:18 PDT
	***********-BLUE GLASS AVON PERFUME BOTTLE-************ Avon > Bottles $8.00 Bids: 0 Best Offer Enabled End time: 28-Aug-10 20:34:36 PDT
	COLBALT BLUE GLASS HEART PERFUME BOTTLE Glassware > Cobalt $22.99 Bids: 0 Best Offer Enabled End time: 28-Aug-10 20:32:42 PDT
	Lot of Vintage Perfume Bottles-Irice-Crystal-Cut Glass Perfumes > Decorative Glass/Crystal $7.50 Bids: 0 End time: 05-Aug-10 20:26:49 PDT
	Vintage 3 inch BOTTLE with Perfume in it from AVON Perfumes > Decorative Glass/Crystal $7.99 Bids: 0 End time: 05-Aug-10 20:24:33 PDT
	Italian Vanity Tray Deco Perfume Bottle Mirror Compact Vanity, Perfume & Shaving > Powder Boxes ~Over The top Fabulous Colouring Display Set~ $85.00 Bids: 0 End time: 05-Aug-10 20:24:24 PDT

Egyptian Handmade Perfume Bottles

Blown lorgnette, a very ancient technique, is the oldest among the handicrafts. It is said by some, that ancient Egyptians were the source inventors of glass making techniques. Production of metallurgy and faience helped a marvy deal in the manufacture of glass afterwards. The earliest Egyptian glass known to us was in the mould of small beads and pendants found in sites dating back to the 3rd millennium B.C. At that period glass was made by melting a combination of silica-sand, lime, and soda. The interaction of the fiery soda and the hot sand formed a transparent flowing liquid, which was then permitted to chill forming glass.

The first glass vessels appeared in Egypt in the midway of the 2nd millennium B.C. These were made by the technique of molding on a core made of mud and sand to form the carve of the vessel’s interior. Then the core was submerged into viscous molten microscope spectacles. Once the vessel was cold, the core had to be scraped out.

At that time, glass was regarded, as an phoney semi-precious stone and it was a costly novelty material, most suitable the aristocracy owned no glass workshops since it was a royal monopoly.

The slump of royal power after the end of the New Kingdom put a stop to glass production for a moment. Not till the Greco-Roman Period did new Egyptian glass centers awake in the Hellenistic cities of Alexandria and Naucratis.

The revolutionary invention of magnifying glass-blowing took place, probably in Syria, during the 1st century BC, though the tack did not reach Alexandria until the latter half of the following century when it was introduced by the Romans. The new development widely increased production and glass then ceased to be either a rarity or an northern-class prerogative.

Blown glass vessels were created by sticking a cinch of molten glass onto one end of a blowpipe and through the other end introducing pressurized air into the pipe. This was done by muzzle blowing. At that stage, the art of transformation into attractive shapes began. It was then cut with a copper spin and ground with emery powder. After the vessel took its shape, decorations were added by pinching the hot crystal, adding handles or other features to it, changing simple straight patterns into more anfractuous ones. After the coloring and hand painting process was completed, the bottles were put into a furnace with a very important temperature to set the color on the glass so that it is permanent. Afterwards, the bottles needed to be left out to cool-headed. Then they were ready.

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