. Glass. the mosques these spheres are of metalor of glass; we have only two specimens of the lattermaterial in European collections—one of amber-yellowglass in the British Museum (Plate xxvii. 2), a second,larger and ovoid in shape, at South Kensington. Thereare three others, one of blue glass, in the Arab Museumat Cairo. A similar method of suspending the lamps was inuse in Byzantine churches, and something of the sortmay still be seen in St. Marks. In the pictures of theVenetian painters of the later fifteenth century—of Bel-lini, and Cima, and Carpaccio—the lamps, of a strictlyOriental or

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. Glass. the mosques these spheres are of metalor of glass; we have only two specimens of the lattermaterial in European collections—one of amber-yellowglass in the British Museum (Plate xxvii. 2), a second,larger and ovoid in shape, at South Kensington. Thereare three others, one of blue glass, in the Arab Museumat Cairo. A similar method of suspending the lamps was inuse in Byzantine churches, and something of the sortmay still be seen in St. Marks. In the pictures of theVenetian painters of the later fifteenth century—of Bel-lini, and Cima, and Carpaccio—the lamps, of a strictlyOriental or Byzantine type, that hang from the nichesthat form the background to their enthroned Madonnas,well illustrate this arrangement.^ It may be said generally of the Saracenic enamelledglass as of the unadorned glass of the Byzantines thatpreceded it, that the lamp in one shape or another is the ^ A good example may be seen in a large picture of the Circumcision byMarco Marziale in the National -asd2|

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