Hand-Blown Glassware: Cups Blown in the Old Factory

A close-up of a set of handmade blown glass drinkware: several water glasses with slightly varying shapes, a glass jar, and a narrow-necked bottle. The glass has a faint greenish or amber tint, not completely colorless and transparent; the wall thickness is uneven, thicker at the bottom, with tiny air bubbles and occasional swirl marks inside; the rim of the cup is fire-polished and rounded rather than cut and ground flat, thus having slight undulations. Each piece varies slightly in height and roundness. They are arranged on a wooden shelf by the window, and as sunlight passes through, it casts distorted yet bright light spots and focal points on the countertop. Avoid: using completely colorless transparent, uniformly thick machine-produced cups, eliminating air bubbles and thickness variations, making all cups perfectly identical, adding printed patterns and engravings.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組手工吹製的玻璃杯具近景:幾只造型略有差異的水杯、一個玻璃罐、一支細口瓶。玻璃是帶有淡淡青綠或琥珀色調的,不是完全無色透明;器壁的厚薄不均,底部較厚,內部有細小的氣泡與偶爾的旋轉紋;杯口的邊緣經過火燒圓潤而不是切割磨平,因此略有起伏。每一只的高度與圓度都稍微不同。它們排在窗邊的木層板上,陽光穿過時在檯面上投下扭曲而明亮的光斑與焦點。避免:使用完全無色透明、器壁均勻的機器量產杯、消除氣泡與厚薄差異、讓所有杯子完全一致、加入印花與雕刻圖案。