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 144
s aresimultaneously found (p. 124). Painted enamels. In these the enamel is thinly spread over thesurface of the metal, chiefly by means of spatulas and points,though brushes are also used. The process allows the artists to copyelaborate pictorial compositions, the actual models being usually… … Fig. 93.—Enamelled plaques with inscription relating to Henry of Blois,Bishop of Winchester and brother of King Stephen (see p. 118). of thin plaques have to be covered with enamel, which mustbe of equal quality. This is done because the metal expands andcontracts more rapidly than the enamel, and…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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