# Pontil & Pistil

> A concept website for a fictional studio that makes scientifically exact glass botanical models, each one cast from a scan of a single living bloom. The brand is fictional; the botany and the history of glass flowers on these pages are real and sourced.

## Pages

- [Home](https://pontil-pistil.pages.dev/): one lily shown as the living flower, a scan and cast glass, with a named anatomy, an eleven-week process and five questions answered.
- [Specimens](https://pontil-pistil.pages.dev/specimens): eight glass models in progress, with family, flowering month, scale and bench weeks.
- [Glass flowers](https://pontil-pistil.pages.dev/glass-flowers): the Blaschka glass flowers at Harvard, who made them, how many exist and how they were made.
- [Anatomy of a lily](https://pontil-pistil.pages.dev/anatomy-of-a-lily): tepals, stamens, anthers, filaments, stigma, style and ovary on one specimen.

## Facts that are stated on the site

- Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1939) made the glass botanical models at Harvard between 1887 and 1936. Counts differ by source: about 4,300 models of about 780 species (Harvard), or 847 life-size models plus about 3,000 detail models.
- A lily flower has six tepals, six stamens and one pistil with a three-chambered superior ovary.
- Specimen figures such as the eleven-week bench time and the 212 photographs belong to the fictional studio, not to any real business.

## Contact

The enquiry link is a plain mailto to a reserved example address. There are no forms, accounts, prices or payments.