How to make an Islamic beaker

In the 1200s, the glassmakers of Syria and Egypt perfected the art of enamelling and gilding on glass – a technique European craftsmen hadn’t yet learnt. Find out how they did it as Bill Gudenrath, glass specialist at the Corning Museum of Glass, uses traditional glass blowing methods to create a copy of a beautiful Islamic glass beaker from the Waddesdon Bequest. The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of medieval and Renaissance treasures bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild in 1898. It was redisplayed in a new gallery in June 2015: http://ow.ly/O3Nlu