. Glass. the way, a greatslab of bluish-green glass, traditionally of Byzantineorigin, is still preserved.^ But it was probably by more remote paths, throughPoland and other Slavonic lands to the east,^ that thedesigns on the only specimens of mediaeval glass stillexisting in Germany that show distinctly oriental motives^—if indeed the glasses are not themselves Oriental—found their way westward. I refer to the rare carved ^ In the sacristy of the church at Mittelzell, where I recently had an oppor-tunity of examining it. This is an irregular oblong slab, about twenty inches inlength, weighing
. Glass. the way, a greatslab of bluish-green glass, traditionally of Byzantineorigin, is still preserved.^ But it was probably by more remote paths, throughPoland and other Slavonic lands to the east,^ that thedesigns on the only specimens of mediaeval glass stillexisting in Germany that show distinctly oriental motives^—if indeed the glasses are not themselves Oriental—found their way westward. I refer to the rare carved ^ In the sacristy of the church at Mittelzell, where I recently had an oppor-tunity of examining it. This is an irregular oblong slab, about twenty inches inlength, weighing about thirty pounds. One surface is nearly even, as if the moltenglass had been poured out upon a table. ^ The Slavonic tribes before their conversion do not appear to have had anyknowledge of glass ; it is not found in any of their tombs to the east of the Elbe. ^ Apart from a few examples of enamelled glass of Saracenic origin preservedin church treasuries; these probably came in somewhat
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