Among the most lavish glassware produced during the Hellenistic Age (330-30 B.C.) are vessels made of glass canes that contain gold leaf sandwiched between layers of colorless glass and worked into wavy bands with other colored canes.
Sidney Goldstein, "Cat. 73 Alabastron (Container for Scented Oil): Curatorial Entry," in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
Kurt T. Luckner, "Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 1 (1994), pp. 83, 86 (ill. p 87).
Cat. 73 Alabastron (Container for Scented Oil), early 2nd/1st century B.C.