The Circus Bird Beaker. Free-blown colourless glass painted with colourful bird motifs. Found in a wealthy male burial. Varpelev, Denmark. Roman Iron Age. 2nd-3d century AD. The National Museum of Denmark.
Melina Mercouri enjoys a coffee at a quiet pavement café - in front of the Byzantine church of St John the Theologian, off Erechtheos Str and Erotokritou Str - Plaka, Athens | Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images, 1961
Tea for two with an amazing view of the Temple of Zeus, at the Royal Olympic Athens Hotel, 1969 | Photo by Dimitris Harissiadis, Benaki Museum Photographic Archives
A pair of glass drinking cups. Blown and decorated with marvered blobs. Translucent cobalt blue; blobs in opaque white, red, pale blue, and yellow. Irregular pattern of marvered blobs on body and applied base. Roman. Early Imperial. 1st century AD. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A glass bottle of wine, protected by a woven straw cover, and accompanied by a stemmed goblet of transparent colourless glass. Roman mosaic panel at Thysdrus, modern El Jem, Tunisia, 3rd century AD.