. Glass. rved in the manner of rockcrystal, I now come to a more elaborately enamelled group, inthe decoration of which the human figure plays animportant part. In the Griine Gewolbe at Dresden are two beakers orkanaps of this class, set in rich silver-gilt mountingsof the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Round oneof these cylindrical beakers runs a spirited frieze, withpolo - players, mounted on brown, white, and yellowhorses; above is a cufic inscription in gold on a blueground (Plate xxv.). On the other beaker, probably theearlier of the two, we see a group of brilliantly cladturbaned fig
. Glass. rved in the manner of rockcrystal, I now come to a more elaborately enamelled group, inthe decoration of which the human figure plays animportant part. In the Griine Gewolbe at Dresden are two beakers orkanaps of this class, set in rich silver-gilt mountingsof the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Round oneof these cylindrical beakers runs a spirited frieze, withpolo - players, mounted on brown, white, and yellowhorses; above is a cufic inscription in gold on a blueground (Plate xxv.). On the other beaker, probably theearlier of the two, we see a group of brilliantly cladturbaned figures seated by a flowing stream—the wateris naively rendered by a meandering line of blue enamel;the background is formed by a flight of aquatic both these glasses, beside the usual gamut of colours—gold, blue, red, green, yellow, and opaque white—wefind some mixed brownish tints. Somewhat taller than these Dresden kanaps is thebeaker at Wilhelmshohe (it is some nine inches in162 PLATE XXI-. v\RACJiXlL ) ( GEKiVlAN .MiiTAL MOUNTING OF SIXIEENTI ENAMELLED GLASS OF SARACENS height). The decoration—an al fresco wine-party withmusicians—calls to mind one of the groups of figures onthe Wiirzburg flask. Somewhat similar is the beakerpreserved in the picture gallery at Cassel, but theenamels on this are distinctly poorer. A beautiful beaker of this class came to the BritishMuseum with the Waddesdon collection. It stands upona French-Gothic mounting of the fourteenth see a prince seated on his throne, with attendants oneither side. The glass is colourless and clear, and amongthe enamels a palish green, applied as a thin wash, shouldbe noted.^ Since then another goblet of this class has beenacquired by the British Museum. This cup is said tohave been dug up in the neighbourhood of Aleppo. Theglass is much decayed, in this forming an exception tothe other goblets of the class. The design includes twoconventional palm-trees, whose trunks are
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