Aromatherapy Vessels

Ancient Egyptians used the core method for creating their perfume vessels before the technique of blowing glass was developed.

I like this technique both for simplicity and for it's nod to the past.

These vessels with stopper are all 2.5 to 3 inches tall. They all have true perfumery-style stoppers made of glass.

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Echo Vessel 425 x 1000 pixels (66 KB) 0 Comments This was one of my first vessels, and I am still infatuated with it. From the glass reactions to the tiny bird on the stopper, it will always be one of my sentimental favorites.		Maki-e Vessel 414 x 1000 pixels (66 KB) 0 Comments The golden tones on this vessel reminded me of maki-e. Made with layers of patterned glass shards, it shows slight depth.		Seal Vessel 386 x 1000 pixels (56 KB) 0 Comments I love the little seal sitting on the stopper of this vessel. A wave appears to crash beneath him.
Flame Vessel 354 x 1000 pixels (45 KB) 0 Comments Like a little torch, this stopper sports a flame above the patterned vessel.

Artist: TerriMayStudios

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My aesthetic is wabi sabi -- a term from Japan that roughly translates to beauty found in imperfection.

Richard R. Powell summarizes by saying "It (wabi-sabi) nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

Andrew Juniper claims, "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."

It is also two separate words, with related but different meanings.

Wabi is the kind of perfect beauty that is seemingly-paradoxically caused by just the right kind of imperfection, such as an asymmetry in a ceramic bowl which reflects the handmade craftsmanship, as opposed to another bowl which is perfect, but soul-less and machine-made.

Sabi is the kind of beauty that can come only with age, such as the patina on a very old bronze statue.

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