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 141
: the reader is therefore referred for this 108 GLOSSARY part of the subject to the useful books published in recent yearsby those who have taken a prominent part in the revival ofart-enamelling in England, for instance those by Mr. H. H.Cunynghame. C.B. The great qualities of enamel are the… … Fig. 91.—Gold brooch, German, eleventh century, withBvzantine cloisonne enamels. therefore more suited to this work than laborious efforts after theexact imitation of nature. The principal kinds of enamels are known by the followingnames:— Champleve, or embedded enamels (emaux en faille depargne).…
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