The glass sea creatures (alternately called the Blaschka sea creatures, glass marine invertebrates, Blaschka invertebrate models, and Blaschka glass invertebrates) are works of glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. The artistic predecessors of the Glass Flowers, the sea creatures were the output of the Blaschkas' successful mail-order business of supplying museums and private collectors around the world with sets of glass models of marine invertebrates.
Between 1863 and 1880, the Blaschkas – working in Dresden – executed at least 10,000 of these highly detailed glass models, representing some 700 different species.[1]
A number of large collections of the models are held by museums and other academic institutions. Harvard's Museum of Natural History exhibits many of the Blaschka's glass creations, and its Museum of Comparative Zoology hold 430 items in the Blaschka Glass Invertebrate Collection and display about 60 at any given time.[2] Cornell University has about 570 items in its collection and has restored some 170 of these,[3] with many others in its collection stored at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.[4] The largest collection in Europe, of 530 pieces, is at Ireland's Natural History Museum. Other holdings include the Boston Museum of Science; the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Natural History Museum in London, Redpath Museum of McGill University in Montreal, Natural History Museum in Geneva, and both Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin in Ireland;[5] Hancock Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, England; The Grant Museum of Zoology[6] in London, and Aquarium-Museum in Liège, Belgium,[7] and Melbourne Museum, in Melbourne, Australia.
The glassseacreatures (alternately called the Blaschka seacreatures, glass marine invertebrates, Blaschka invertebrate models, and Blaschka glass invertebrates)...
rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glassseacreatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers. Born in Leipzig and the son...
were glass artists from Dresden, Germany. They were known for their production of biological and botanical models, including glassseacreatures and Harvard...
ISBN 978-1-4020-6459-3. "SeaCreatures in Glass". Harvard Museum of Natural History. "Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants"...
Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, popularly known as the Glass Flowers, and the exhibit SeaCreatures in Glass, displaying some of the Harvard...
Leeds Museums & Galleries), and "Blaschka - The Glass Aquarium" featuring the Blaschka glasssea-creatures. In 2004, "Dust off the Dodo" featured collections...
cnidaria. She has published work on the museum's collection of 182 glassseacreatures made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. She is a committee member of...
5 mi). Some sponges live to great ages; there is evidence of the deep-seaglass sponge Monorhaphis chuni living about 11,000 years. While most of the...
made of four- and/or six-pointed siliceous spicules, often referred to as glass sponges. They are usually classified along with other sponges in the phylum...
advertisements showing the humanized Sea-Monkeys enjoying life in their underwater fantasy world. Billions of the tiny creatures have been sold over the years...
creatures are found in Burmese mythology. Many Burmese creatures are part human or creatures capable of assuming human form. Most mythical creatures are...
"Uprising: How Calgary's Levi Meaden deals with a Russian accent and giant seacreatures as his career takes off". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 3 May 2018. "He's...
observed the transformation of a Leptocephalus into a round glass eel in the Mediterranean Sea. (He also observed that salt water was necessary to support...
sicken livestock, and the creature was held responsible for droughts and epidemics on land despite being predominantly a sea-dweller. A graphic description...
118, Creatures of the Deep Sea". United States Copyright Catalog. November 23, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2023. "Wild Kratts : 97,98, A Creature Christmas"...
forming on higher ground. An area featuring three tanks with creatures from the Wadden Sea, the largest of which visitors are invited to put their hands...
The stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral are held to be one of the best-preserved and most complete set of medieval stained glass, notably celebrated...
group, the Creatures, in 1981. With the Creatures, she released four studio albums and singles such as "Right Now". After disbanding the Creatures in the...
species comprising more than 13,000 individual fish and other sea and water creatures from most of Australia's water habitats. Opened in 1988, it is...
very few creatures (manatees are another) that eat sea grass. Sea grass needs to be constantly cut short to help it grow across the sea floor. Sea turtle...
aquarium was invented by the Romans, who are said to have kept sea barbels in marble-and-glass tanks, but scholars doubt the veracity of this. In 1832, Jeanne...
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