. Glass. ^^. GLASS OF PERSIAN TVPK, FROM A TOMB AT BAKU VINCENT kOHINSON COLLKCIION PERSIAN GLASS establishing the Syrian glass industry in the Khanatesof Turkestan we do not know. There is a vague tradi-tion that in the fifteenth century the glass of Samarkandwas the finest in the East. It is, however, to a muchlater time that the earliest specimens of what I may callthe Veneto-Persian family of glass belong—to the timeof the Sufi dynasty in Persia and to that of the Mogulsin Northern India. Of Persian glass there indeed still exist a few rareexamples which may perhaps date from an earlier ti
. Glass. ^^. GLASS OF PERSIAN TVPK, FROM A TOMB AT BAKU VINCENT kOHINSON COLLKCIION PERSIAN GLASS establishing the Syrian glass industry in the Khanatesof Turkestan we do not know. There is a vague tradi-tion that in the fifteenth century the glass of Samarkandwas the finest in the East. It is, however, to a muchlater time that the earliest specimens of what I may callthe Veneto-Persian family of glass belong—to the timeof the Sufi dynasty in Persia and to that of the Mogulsin Northern India. Of Persian glass there indeed still exist a few rareexamples which may perhaps date from an earlier have already referred (p. 172) to the little drinking-bowlof honey-coloured glass in the British Museum decoratedwith enamels of good quality—turquoise, red and white(Plate xxvii. i). The figure of an angel upon it isthoroughly Persian in character; not only in the enamels,but in the horny quality of the honey-coloured metal, thislittle bowl closely resembles the spherical lamp ornamentmentioned on p
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