A Thousand Glass Flowers

Exploring the Blaschka Glass Models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

There was no way that this blooming redbud branch was made of glass. I’ve seen glass art before. I’ve taken a close look at Dale Chihuly installations and I can promise you that this botanical object that I was inspecting at the Harvard Museum of Natural History looked nothing like that.

These are the Blaschka Glass Models of Plants named for the father …