Product Description
Beacon of the Sea: The Egyptian Glass Teal Lighthouse Ornament
If the amethyst lighthouse guards a romantic, sunset-painted shore, this luminous teal companion stands watch over something wilder — a rocky headland wrapped in sea mist, where the Atlantic rolls in great grey-green swells and sailors have been grateful for exactly this kind of steady, glowing presence for centuries. Hand-blown in Egypt from German Pyrex glass, this lighthouse shimmers in the most evocative shade of deep seafoam and ocean teal, its translucent column alive with the shifting, watery quality of light filtered through a fathom of clear ocean. The same elegant architecture as its amethyst sister — tapered column, domed cap, substantial circular base — here takes on an entirely different personality, saltier and more elemental, as if it grew organically from the sea itself.
Horizontal bands etched along the column in genuine 24K gold wrap the tower like the painted stripe markings that have distinguished real lighthouses from one another since the 19th century — a practical system that allowed sailors to identify their exact location by day as well as by night. The famous Cape Hatteras lighthouse, for instance, wears its bold black-and-white spiral; the Lighthouse of Alexandria, ancestral inspiration for all lighthouses, was said to have been clad in gleaming white marble. This teal Egyptian beauty, ringed in gold at base and cap, belongs in that grand tradition — diminutive in size, monumental in presence.
- Hand-blown Egyptian ornament crafted from German Pyrex glass
- Approximately 6.5" tall × 1.7" wide (16.5 cm × 4.3 cm) — same form as the amethyst companion
- Deep seafoam and ocean teal translucent glass column with domed cap and circular base
- 24K gold etching on base ring, cap collar, and horizontal band details along the column
- Includes gold metallic hanging cord; a magnificent pair with the amethyst lighthouse for any coastal décor lover
