Glass Scopes

"Shining Bottle" is a tiny, delicate, blown glass, handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Chikako Ishida. This scope is a small, genie-like bottle which contains birefringent material and tiny glass beads. The scope captures light, reflected from t…

"Moulin Rouge" is a handheld kaleidoscope by Marc Tickle. This is a glass body over art paper with a lovely dragongly image. There is a non-turning, oil-filled, side-lit object chamber which contains lampworked glass, millefiori, and dichroic glass w…

"Mesmer-Rising" is a handheld kaleidoscope by Marc Tickle. The body is glass over hand-painted art paper, it has a non-turning, oil-filled, side-lit object chamber that includes lampworked glass, with a black background. This scope is a 2-mirror syst…

"Lower Antelope Canyon" is a glass kaleidoscope sculpture by Allison Borgschulte. The design for this scope was inspired by Allison's trip to Arizona, where she toured the Lower Antelope Canyon in Page, AZ. This piece displays a look reminicent of th…

"Kimono" kaleidoscopes are made by Japanese artist Yasuko Nakazato. Using up-cycled, traditional Kimono fabrics under glass makes lovely imagery for the scope body. There is a non-turning, oil-filled object cell which comes in either 2 or 3 mirror...