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bjbj Here is a test. Ever since people began to collect and value ancient glass, unscrupulous
people have produced imitations. They ve made forgeries, which they hope to pass off as
the real thing, and in this case, we have groups of forgeries of ancient glass. But
in each group, there are also genuine items. And the test is this: look at the group of
bottles on the top shelf at the left, all the core formed-like containers (top shelf
on the right), and decide for yourselves which objects are genuine and which are forgeries.
If you look immediately below, there are two bowls, and these are two of the most interesting
things in this display. The bowl on the left is a genuine bowl of the 1st century BC, we
re confident of that. The bowl on the right is also a genuine bowl of the 1st century
BC, but the engraved scene of it, of chariots racing around the outside of the bowl, is
actually copied from a piece of cut glass in a German museum that we know was made in
the 4th century. So, somebody thinking they were doing a very clever piece of forgery,
took a genuine bowl, thinking that would fool most of the experts, and decorated it in a
style with a scene that wasn t created until four centuries after the bowl itself. Here
is a test WrightDC Normal.dot WrightDC Microsoft Word 10.0 The Corning Museum of Glass Here
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