The Blaschka glass sea creatures are a world-renowned collection of at least 10,000 of scientifically accurate and highly detailed glass models of marine invertebrates created by father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, in Dresden between 1863 and 1880 CE [5438×6981]
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Holy shit those are GORGEOUS
Dresden. I hope they survived the war.
Amazing!
Harvard has a similar glass flower display. Hey they’re by the same guys! The Glass Flowers | Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries https://share.google/XtNZosuW6yA3YVBPb
Fascinating little film about them here: [https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/colour-in-collection-blaschka-glass-models.html](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/colour-in-collection-blaschka-glass-models.html)