. Glass. her than the enamelled ware of Syria and little bowl of amber-yellow glass in the BritishMuseum, enamelled with the figure of an angel, wasconsidered by Franks to be Persian ware of the fifteenthcentury (Plate xxvii. i). With it we may compare thealready mentioned sphere from a lamp-chain in the samecollection which is of very similar glass. The decorationof the first object is distinctly Persian, but its origin maybe sought, perhaps, in the Tabriz district or even furthernorth in Georgia, rather than in the more southern andeastern districts where, under Venetian influence,
. Glass. her than the enamelled ware of Syria and little bowl of amber-yellow glass in the BritishMuseum, enamelled with the figure of an angel, wasconsidered by Franks to be Persian ware of the fifteenthcentury (Plate xxvii. i). With it we may compare thealready mentioned sphere from a lamp-chain in the samecollection which is of very similar glass. The decorationof the first object is distinctly Persian, but its origin maybe sought, perhaps, in the Tabriz district or even furthernorth in Georgia, rather than in the more southern andeastern districts where, under Venetian influence, a glassindustry sprang up in later days. A few fragments of glass have been brought from ^ The words on the document as I read them are ?parte schietti et parte The ambassador at the same time sends an order for window-glassto be used in the new palace that Ali Pasha is building; and finally, for unodi quelli ferali [fena/i?] over fano di salla grande—probably some kind ofchandelier. 172.
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