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THE ROMANO-GERMANIC museum in Cologne contains some exceptional examples of late-antique glassware. Two contrasting but complementary examples stand out. The most spectacular glass in the collection is a diatreta, or cage glass.
The lower part of the bowl of this goblet is encased in a frame or cage of very delicate and elaborately carved glass of a contrasting colour. It would be a miracle of craftsmanship even were the external cage separately produced and then somehow attached to the bowl.
But close inspection of the joins proves
