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| Mount Washington Glass Co. (New Bedford, Mass.) Burmese Vase ca. 1885-95 blown glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Baccarat Cristallerie (France) Tumbler 1848 pressed glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Anonymous American Maker Wig Stand 18th-19th century glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. Cologne Bottle ca. 1870 blown glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Anonymous Venetian Maker Goblet ca. 1890-1910 blown glass Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Émile Gallé Dragonfly Bowl ca. 1902 glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Jacoba van Heemskerck Composition (Blue Tree) ca. 1920 leaded glass Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Josef Hoffmann for J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna Champagne Glass 1912 blown glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Pairpoint Glass (Sagamore, Mass.) Vase ca. 1935 blown glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Suzanne Lalique Vase 1931 press-molded glass Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Imperial Glass Co. (Bellaire, Ohio) Bud Vase ca. 1910 blown glass Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Cristallerie de Schneider (Paris) Vase ca. 1924-25 blown glass with metal mount Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Dominick Labino Untitled 1969 glass Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Claire Falkenstein Corona 1971 brazed copper and fused glass Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Benjamin Moore Opaline Exterior-Fold Set: Vase, Bottle, Bowl 1995 blown glass Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Morris (born 1957) Cinerary Urn 2002 blown glass with horsehair cording Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Amber Cowan Compote with Candle Holder 2013 pressed glass Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
In heaven-high musings and many,
Far-seeking and deep debate,
Of strong things find I not any
That is as the strength of Fate.
Help nor healing is told
In soothsayings uttered of old,
In the Thracian runes, the verses
Engraven of Orpheus' pen;
No balm of virtue to save
Apollo aforetime gave,
Who stayeth with tender mercies
The plagues of the children of men.
She hath not her habitation
In temples that hands have wrought;
Him that bringeth oblation,
Behold, she heedeth him naught.
Be thou not wroth with us more,
O mistress, then heretofore;
For what God willeth soever,
That thou bringest to be;
Thou breakest in sunder the brand
Far forged in the Iron Land;
Thine heart is cruel, and never
Came pity anigh unto thee.
– Euripides, from Alcestis, translated by A.E. Housman (before 1936)