. Glass. n the other hand, althoughthe glass-workers may in places have carried on the oldworkings, what they made was of no artistic have in this case nothing equivalent to the outcomeof the renewed interest taken in the material by thenorthern chieftains—the verre a fougbre was a productof the woods and heaths. The Oriental influence—the distinguishing feature inall the glass of which I have treated in the last chapter—is not so pronounced in the glass of the Franko-Saxonpeoples as in their jewellery and metal-work. In thesewe find the mark of influences that had their source i
. Glass. n the other hand, althoughthe glass-workers may in places have carried on the oldworkings, what they made was of no artistic have in this case nothing equivalent to the outcomeof the renewed interest taken in the material by thenorthern chieftains—the verre a fougbre was a productof the woods and heaths. The Oriental influence—the distinguishing feature inall the glass of which I have treated in the last chapter—is not so pronounced in the glass of the Franko-Saxonpeoples as in their jewellery and metal-work. In thesewe find the mark of influences that had their source inthe East at two if not three widely separated periods. Asfor the earliest of these, it is not only pre-Roman butprobably pre-Hellenic: its relations are rather with Asiaticthan classical lands. The brooches and buckles inlaidwith garnets, and the quaint animal forms with whichthe metal designs are built up, take us back perhaps to 1 I use the term Saxon here to include also the Angles and EARLY GERMANIC GLASS an earlier Asiatic civilisation which is best representedin the Persia of Achaemenid times.^ The second ofthese periods of Oriental influence is to be associatedwith the introduction of the Christian religion. Again,at a still later time some of the older Oriental motivescrept in in a modified form with the pagan Danes andeven with the Normans. As far as glass is concerned, it is in the beads that wesee most clearly the return to the older fashions. Ofthese Franko-Saxon beads the British Museum has agreat store, not only from English graves but fromthose of the Franks and other Germanic tribes on theContinent. Now these beads differ entirely from thosefound in Celtic and Roman tombs. Of these last, thedominant type—and we must confine ourselves to this—is of a turquoise or deep blue, generally more or lesstransparent, and they are often longitudinally a collection of Germanic beads, on the other hand,the prevailing colours are red and yellow
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