The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (or simply the Glass Flowers)
The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (or simply the Glass Flowers)
is a collection of highly realistic glass botanical models at the
Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Created
by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka from 1887 through 1936 at their studio
in Hosterwitz , near Dresden, Germany . It includes 847 life-size models
(representing 780 species and
varieties of plants in 164 families) and some 3,000 detail models such
as of plant parts and anatomical sections. The collection comprises
approximately 4,400 individual glass models representing over 830 plant
species.
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