Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 523
k k 498 ENAMEL are in existence a few small articles of jewellery, ear-rings, brooches, sodecorated, to which a Byzantine origin is attributed. There were various methods of producing enamels with figure subjects.If a plain gold background was desired, as was most frequently the case,a thin plate… … Fig. 298. Agate chalice with enamels, of the eleventh century : in the Treasury ofS. Marco, Venice. (Schlumberger : Hachette.) P. 514. was punched in over a piece of leather. Within this cavity the stripsof flat wire which rendered the features, extremities, and folds of draperywere soldered, and…
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