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Blue glass sugar bowl

'Sugar, one reflects back to childhood when a drink made sim…
Shallow, pale green-blue, circular glass dish

Although glass and glazed stone beads appeared sporadically …
Glass snuff bottle, made by Liu Shou-ben

Snuff bottles painted on the inside are particularly admired…
Glass footed cup (skyphos)

This glass skyphos (winged-handled cup) belongs to a series …
Glass perfume jar (alabastron)

The body of this glass alabastron was formed on a core. The …
Gold ear-stud

This large gold ear-stud was made during the Etruscan Archai…
Glass vessel (amphoriskos)

This glass vessel, known as an amphoriskos , was discovered …
Enamelled measuring glass (passglas)

This is a passglas (measuring glass), a type of drinking gla…
Engraved glass ewer by the Cristalleries de Baccarat

Following the success of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal…
Engraved glass (roemer)

A roemer is a type of drinking glass used for wine, made fro…
Four glass claw beakers

The princely burial at Taplow contained a range of high-stat…
Glass goblet, engraved by Frans Greenwood

The colourless glass has an ornamental air bubble, or 'tear'…
The Aldrevandini Beaker

The Aldrevandini beaker is a uniquely well-preserved example…
Glass beaker

This beaker is a fine example of a high-quality vessel made …
Glass kohl tube in the form of a palm column

Eye-paint (kohl) was an important cosmetic for the ancient E…
Gold earring of Tawosret

This earring is one of a pair found in the tomb of a royal c…
Gold pectoral of a hovering falcon

Pectorals first appear in royal burials of the Middle Kingdo…
Inner coffin of the priest Hor

The mummy of Hor was probably originally housed in three cof…
Model faience wig for a statue

This wig was probably one of a number of faience and glass e…
Abalone shell and glass necklace

The necklace is composed of fourteen plaques of abalone shel…
Caribou-skin model of a hunter

This is likely to have been a model made for sale at a fur t…
Necklace

Necklaces were important heirlooms in Ainu society and were …
Hsun-ok

Lacquerware has been an important craft in Burma for many ce…
Red earthenware bowl

This earthenware bowl is a bright orange-red in colour, and …
Blue glass intaglio with a portrait of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra was born in 69-68 BC. When Ptolemy XII Auletes (th…
Cobalt-blue glass beaker

This remarkable beaker, blown into a silver case, may illust…
Conical glass bowl

The 'slumping process' by which bowls such as this were made…
Glass box

This mould-blown box, a product of the Sidonian industry, be…
Glass cup

This fine cup was found in Tomb 114 at Kourion in Cyprus and…
Glass cylindrical box

Only a shallow dish of similar greenish-blue glass in the Co…
Glass flask

Excavations at Cologne in the Rhineland suggest that there w…
Glass jug (oinochoe)

This blue glass oinochoe (jug) is a typical product of Etrus…
Glass triple-bodied bottle

It is comparatively easy to make a bottle with a double body…
Glass vessel in the form of a pomegranate

This pomegranate vessel is one of several found on the islan…
Mosaic glass bowl

About 80 BC, a small craft sank off the south-west coast of …
Mosaic glass plate

This large polychrome plate of mosaic glass heralds the star…
Necklace of blue cast glass beads and their gold covers

This necklace was made of cast beads of blue glass in the sh…
Colourless glass flask

This flask is an example of cameo decoration, known since th…
Fluted glass bottle

This glass bottle was discovered by the excavator Leonard Wo…
Glass beaker with gold and red enamel

Glass vessels with enamelled and gilded decoration were amon…
Glass cylinder seal

This cylinder seal, made of glass, dates to the thirteenth c…
Glass jar

This glass jar is one of several discovered by Henry Layard …
Green blown-glass rose water sprinkler

This tall blown-glass bottle is for sprinkling rose water. T…
Green glass huqqa base

Tobacco was introduced into India at the end of the sixteent…
Light green glass bowl

This glass bowl was discovered in the nineteenth century by …
Lustre painted bowl

Egyptian glassmakers of the Fatimid dynasty (AD 969-1171) pr…
Mosque lamp

Enamelled and gilded glass lamps were commissioned in large …
Pilgrim bottle

The shape of this bottle, flat on one side and rounded on th…
Blue glass jar

This small, sturdy glass vessel is decorated with horizontal…
Claw beaker

Claw beakers are so called because of the applied 'claws' of…
Claw beaker

This beaker is made of a clear, light greenish glass with fe…
Covered glass goblet

By the end of the seventeenth century glass-makers in Northe…
Drinking glass with election inscription

Sir John Pole (around 1733-60) was a parliamentary candidate…
Gilded glass goblet

This delicate glass is very thinly-blown and decorated only …
Glass cone beaker

Cone beakers are among the earliest and most widespread exam…
Glass drinking-horn

Large horns such as this would have been passed between gues…
Glass tankard with silver-gilt mounts

By the second quarter of the sixteenth century, Venetian gla…
Gold acorn cup

Gold and silver cups have always been highly prized for thei…
Gold disc brooch

The brooch is made in the cloisonné technique with garnets…
Gold disc pendant

This exceptionally fine small pendant would have been strung…
Gold earring

This gold earring, with inlays of garnet and glass, belongs …
'Magical' glass bead

This extraordinary 'bead' is made of opaque white glass with…
Palm cup

Feasting and drinking were important aspects of barbarian so…
Squat glass jar

This jar is thought to have come from a Christian burial nex…
Triple pin set

This unusual and richly decorated set of three linked pins w…
Glass bowl and flagon

The tall flagon in amber-coloured glass and the blue-and-whi…
Glass 'Felix' bottle

Glass bottles were mass-produced containers. The common squa…
Glass gaming counters

These four glass counters are a selection from twenty-four t…