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 Glass Bubble is a company that works with many experienced master glass blowers, and specialises in the reproduction of antique glasses from the third to the eighteenth century.
Discovered around Europe through archaeological digs as well as ancient documentation written text and drawings.
Our company’s originality is in the use of the same techniques as the ancient world did, through glass blowing as well as the same glass composition (sand, soda, and lime). Which gives our glasses a unique greenish coloration and texture, not found in today’s glasses who have added other elements to the composition to make a whiter clearer glass. In the Middle Ages through till the renaissance the glasses you will find in this site were reserved for the highest elite of society at that time. At high society banquets, the guests would have their valets guard their glasses and would most often share their glasses at the table, for fear and obsession that their glass might be poisoned by an enemy.
Whether you are an interior design professional, an antique dealer, a collector or just a lover of the ancient world. You will find a large choice of hand made replica glasses and decanters to decorate your interior or offer an original gift to someone you care for.
Glass bubble also accepts marriage lists, and will soon be offering a larger choice of hand cut antique replica venitian mirrors as well as hand blown crystal chandeliers.
Brief history of glass  The origin of glass is thought to be 3000 years B.C in Mesopotamia, this civilization used volcanic rock (obsidian) by polishing and forming it into shape to create mirrors and arrow tips. Around 1500 B.C the regions around Mesopotamia, Phoenicia and Egypt developed a new method, which consisted of melting sand and soda at high temperatures to afterwards form and shape the mass with clay molds and metallic rods. When adding certain metallic oxides they created different colors to the mixture. With this knowledge they created pearls, small figurines and recipients that were used for decorative and funeral purposes.
This technique is still used today and is known as pate de verre. These civilizations soon exported their objects and knowledge to the Romans and the Greeks.
Glass blowing technique surfaced in Syria around the first century B.C, the composition of the glass added a new component( lime), which made the substance easier to work.
The sand, soda and lime were heated at a temperature of 1500° C in a large clay recipient. Then gathered at the end of a hollow rod, and then formed to the desired shape.
Much later this knowledge was shared throughout Europe and taken up in bohemia and murano in Italy. Which is where you will find the most knowledgeable glass blowers who still keep their secrets of fabrication a tradition and contributed to the advancements in the glass world.
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