Three of the artists included in the Museum’s special exhibition "Magic of the Lamp" exhibition are women, and they are sculptors. These artists are Vìra Lišková from Czechoslovakia (1924–1985), and Susan Plum and Ginny Ruffner from the United States. All of these women work with flameworked borosilicate glass, and they work in small and large scale.

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In 2001, The Corning Museum of Glass acquired an object of folk art: a powder horn engraved with the figure of a glassblower... The Museum’s powder horn, which shows a furnace and a glassblower, appears to be unique. He has a glassmaker’s chair and tools, and he seems to be fashioning a wine bottle or decanter.

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To create a reverse painting on glass, the artist paints the image on the back side of the glass panel in reverse of the normal order, beginning with the highlights and ending with the background. The picture is then viewed from the front.

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The object was blown and wheel-cut and is decorated in relief with lions. It is one of two Hedwig beakers from the cathedral at Halberstadt, Germany. The second beaker, which is still at the cathedral, is said to contain relics of Apostles James and Thomas. All Hedwig beakers are similar. They form a small group of objects decorated with...

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After some years of looking, the Museum was fortunate enough to acquire two glass fountains in 2000. They are table fountains, which were intended to decorate a table or sideboard while entertaining. The design was patented by Joseph Storer of Hammersmith, England, before 1871, and it was made there for several years.

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This mosque lamp is an exquisite example of the quality craftsmanship and innovative design in glass for which the Austrian firm J. & L. Lobmeyr came to be known internationally. Lobmeyr’s Islamic-inspired designs, which were highly praised at the Paris World’s Fair of 1878, remained popular for more than half a century.

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