A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 140
r a red heat. Thus the glaze applied to pottery andporcelain, and the over-glaze colours of the latter, are essentiallyenamel, but the word is generally understood to mean glass fusedupon the surface of a metal object in such a way as to form anornament or design and, by implication, the object… … Fig. 90. —Gold brooch, with bust in cloisonne enamelprobably made in Italy about the seventh century. of tints. If oxide of tin is added to glass coloured with any otthese, the colour, which without it is translucent, becomes opaque ;if oxide of tin is added alone to the plain glass, an opaque…
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