Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 525
ans, dancers, gryphons, eagles, &c, bears an inscriptionshowing that it was made for an Ortukide prince of the twelfth century, perhaps Dawud,who died in a. d. 1144. It may have been made in Mesopotamia, but the Mohammedancraftsman probably learned to use enamel from Byzantine sources. The dish… … ENAMEL 501 points can here be particularly noticed. The first of these is concernedwith the manner in which ancient enamels were fired. From the earliesttimes down to the Renaissance, and even later, the fuel employed waspure charcoal, which gives off no fumes to tarnish the metal and spoil…
Art, Byzantine · Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism
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