Images Trivulzio Cage Cup. Whitish glass with an engraved netting and writing. IV century A.D., found in 1680 at Castellazzo Novarese, Novara

The cup was manufactured starting from a unique block of polychrome glass, of several colors, already mixed together: blue, yellow, green. After the glass blowing, the exterior was drilled, giving the cup the aspect of being webbed by very fine glass trails. On the upper part of the cup, with prominent characters, in blue and green, there is an inscription: BIBE VIVAS MULTIS ANNIS (Drink, may you live many years), a convivial wish, which let us understand that maybe the cup was a present.