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 154
. Thechampleve process, so familiar in late Celtic times, seems to havedied out before the Norman invasion, but when it was reintroducedfrom the Continent, English craftsmen must soon have learned ENAMEL 121 to employ it. Yet in the thirteenth century important piecesof work were still ordered from… … Fig. 97.—Enamelled stall-plate of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford,afterwards Protector ; dated 1537. it is probable that the fine enamelled effigy of William deValence (d. 1304) in Westminster Abbey is also of French origin,as his family had possessions in Aquitaine. For a long time wefind few…
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