Glass Flowers


  

The Glass Flowers are actually made out of glass!

  • The glass flowers were originally made by Leopold and Bacshka who were nineteenth century glass artisans.
  • The models were made from 1887-1936 in Hosterwitz, Germany.

The Glass Flowers were shaped after softening the glass with heat. Many glass flowers were blown out and some were used with colored glass.

 


These Glass Flowers were made because Professor George Lincoln Godale, who was the founder of the Botanical Museum, wanted life-like plants for teaching botany. 
  • There are 847 species life sized models 
  • The glass flowers are also have anatomically correct sections that are seen
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware and her daughter presented the collection to Harvard Univeristy as a Memorial to Charles Eliot Ware, Class of 1834.

 

Publication

The Museum shop offers The Glass Flowers at Harvard, a photograph essay book about Glass Flowers and the Drawing Upon Nature: Studies for the Blaschkas Glass Models, which tells the history behind the glass flowers and other creations by Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka.
















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