The only other lamp, as far as I know, that has been obtained from Syria, is one from Damascus, presented to the British Museum by the late Sir A. W. Franks. This in no way differs from the ordinary type except in the enamelled decoration at the base of the handles. A lamp of quite normal description at South Kensington has also been attributed, but very doubtfully, to the same Syrian town. Footnote 125: The words on the document as I read them are ‘_parte schietti et parte à rediselli_.’ The ambassador at the same time sends an order for window-glass to be used in the new palace that Ali Pasha is building; and finally, for ‘_uno di quelli ferali [fenali?] over fano di salla grande_'—probably some kind of chandelier. Footnote 126: We should have looked rather for some trace of Oriental influence. Freeman (_Historical Geography_, p. 240) speaks of the marquisate as ‘a feudal state, whose rulers had in various ways a singular connection with the East. As Marquesses of Montferrat they claimed the crown of Jerusalem and had worn the crown of Thessalonica.’ Again, early in the fourteenth century the marquisate passed to a branch of the imperial house of Palæologus. Footnote 127: The _Consolato dell’ Arte_ was yearly elected on Christmas Day amid great festivities. In the statutes of the _Arte Vitrea_, drawn up or revised in 1495, we have apparently the earliest documentary evidence for these glass-works. These statutes are given in full in Bordoni’s _L’Arte Vetraria in Altare_, Savona, 1884. Footnote 128: The results are perhaps best summed up in the memoir contributed in 1872 by Cecchetti to the _Reale Instituto Veneto_. See also the _Monographia della Vetraria Veneziana_, the combined work of Zanetti, Cecchetti, and others, drawn up upon the occasion of the Viennese Exhibition of 1873. Vicenzo Zanetti, in his account of the _Museo Civico_ at Murano, gives a list of more than three hundred works (including manuscripts, drawings, and pamphlets) treating upon Venetian glass. Footnote 129: A possible exception has been found in a document of the year 1090, in which a certain citizen adds the word _fiolarius_ to his name. This word, which in the Venetian tongue generally takes the form _friolaro_, is of some importance to us. In Dante the word _fiala_ is used for a wine-bottle: ‘_il vin della sua fiala_,’ Par. x. 88. Footnote 130: As early as 1175 it is mentioned that the Venetians had certain privileges in the _Daciones de Vitro_ at Tyre. Footnote 131: Ayas, Tripoli, Tyre, and Acre remained under Frankish rule during the greater part of the thirteenth century. Acre, the last to fall, was taken by the Saracens in 1291. Footnote 132: My point is that in this beautiful cup the scheme of decoration is essentially French, while the technique of both glass and enamels points to a Saracenic place of origin. Footnote 133: