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Enamels (1912)

Dawson, Nelson, Mrs · London : Methuen & Co. Ltd. · leaf 142

An illustration from Enamels, 1912, leaf 142
nd varioussaints. The figures show no attempt at grace orelaboration, no flowing lines of drapery, the out-lines being stiff and hard lines of metal, each onebeing drawn as a child would draw them, but thebeauty and the colour of this little casket are inex-pressible. The ground is an intense blue,… … CKUCIKIX. I IMOUES. liI.EVENTH CENTUKY CHAMPLEVE ENAMELS loi greeny blues in the lid, and also a fine red. Thiscasket stands in the midst of a case full of theostentatious painted enamels of later Limogeswork, and the severity of its lines, and purity andmellowness of its colours, make it to my…

Enamel and enameling

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