. Glass. -asd2|. ENAMELLED GLASS OF SARACENS master form—no longer the wine-cup, as among theRomans. It would be an interesting study, were thething possible, to trace the steps by which the laterarrangement of an outer lantern of glass grew out of thesimpler Byzantine or Sassanian prototype. But it mustbe remembered that these gorgeous mosque lamps orlanterns are quite a specialised form ; they are only found,as far as we know, in Egypt and Syria, and they belongessentially to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Thetypical Oriental glass lamp is of quite a different type—a little cup in t
. Glass. -asd2|. ENAMELLED GLASS OF SARACENS master form—no longer the wine-cup, as among theRomans. It would be an interesting study, were thething possible, to trace the steps by which the laterarrangement of an outer lantern of glass grew out of thesimpler Byzantine or Sassanian prototype. But it mustbe remembered that these gorgeous mosque lamps orlanterns are quite a specialised form ; they are only found,as far as we know, in Egypt and Syria, and they belongessentially to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Thetypical Oriental glass lamp is of quite a different type—a little cup in the shape of a truncated cone, fromfour to six inches in height. This is a form that isgenerally in use in the East at the present day. Such avessel constitutes the essential part both of the streetlanterns (the conical cup in this case passes through anaperture in the base) and of the coronas of lights by whichthe larger rooms are illuminated. In the latter case thecups pass through apertures in a ring or dis
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