Baijan glass is a top quality of hand blown glassware from Azerbaijan Southwest of Russia. Since each piece is hand blown you will never see two pieces that are exactly alike. These hand blown glass wares are contemporary and exotic pieces that are hardly found anywhere else.
The art of hand blown glass making is an old tradition which goes back about 3000 years when the Persian Empire ruled the region. In the late 18th century Azerbaijan fell under the Russian rule and finally in 1989 got its independence and became The Republic of Azerbaijan. The tradition of glass making has not been changed since the 18th century and they are still made in the style of those days in brick ovens with black oil.
Essie Zareh, using a multilayer color glass with his design of colorful and exotic shapes creating a unique collection of glass art. Each color represents one layer of glass and there are no painting. Each piece is an original creation and there may be slight variation in size, pattern and color. Most of pieces with based are signed by Essie Zareh to keep the originality.
