The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 75
xpofed by means of ablow-pipe to a fufficient degree of heat to melt the enamel without af-fecting the metal, and then ground to the requifite thicknefs and polifhed. In this kind of enamel, gold was always ufed to divide the variouscolours, no other metal being fufficiently flexible for that… … The branches of oak leaves and acorns, vine leaves and grapes, birds,&c. are moft delicately dotted on the lurface of the poliihed metal, whichproduces a very fparkling and pleafing effecl:. The cup is in excellentcondition, with the exception of the top of the finial, which in our copyhas been…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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