• glimse@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It’s nowhere near as cool when your glass grapes are made in a modern factory. We’d probably go nuts if we saw these on a table in the 19th century

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    8 months ago

    That’s something that’s always stuck out to me in regards to various artefacts – the Chinese and other Asian cultures seem to use a lot more gemstones/minerals compared to Western/Greek/Roman-based using lots of heavy metals (gold, silver, copper etc).