‘_Qualia opera multa praeclara et admiranda cum quondam biennio agerem Venetiis contemplatus sum; in primis verò anniversariis diebus festis ascensionis domenicae cùm venalia essent apportata Murano; ubi vitrariae officinae omnium celeberrimae sunt: quas vidi cum aliâs, tum maxime cum certis de causis Andream Naugerium in aedibus, quas ibi habebat, uno cum Francisco Asulano convenerim._’ From this passage it would appear that there was a great sale of Muranese glass in Venice on the feast of the Ascension (cf. above, p. 216). Is this Naugerius, at whose house at Murano Agricola visited, to be identified with the famous poet and orator Andrea Navagero, from whose travels in Spain I have quoted on page 249? Footnote 194: _Sarepta oder Bergpostil_, Nürnberg, 1562. Footnote 195: In a contemporary vocabulary _ritzle_ is interpreted as ‘_aurum quo tingitur vitrum rubro colore_.’ In a passage on Venetian glass in his early work, _De Naturâ Fossilium_ (1546), Agricola speaks of the use of gold to colour glass of the ruddy colour of the carbuncle. Footnote 196: I quote this passage, as it is much more to the point as regards German glass than what is to be found in Agricola, who gives us rather his theories as to the materials used by the Venetians to make their _cristallo_. Footnote 197: A separate muffle-stove for this purpose was, it would thus appear, not yet available. Footnote 198: This part of the decoration we may indeed regard as a survival of the Venetian influence that was dominant in the middle of the sixteenth century. Of this I have already spoken. Footnote 199: This flower, the _Mai-glöcklein_, is frequently seen on German enamelled glass, and is the more conspicuous as it is almost the only flower realistically treated. I may note that M. Schuermans would appear to regard the presence of these _tiges de muguet_, executed in enamel, as essentially a sign of Low Country origin; they are, however, frequently accompanied by inscriptions in German. Footnote 200: Notice to the heraldic right of the birds’ heads a shield bearing a cross and the inscription _Potestat zu Rom_. Footnote 201: On a small _humpen_, or rather _kanne_, of this class in the British Museum, dated 1611, we find only three secular electors—those of Saxony, the Palatinate, and Brandenburg; the place of the fourth (Bohemia) is occupied by the imperial eagle. Footnote 202: