Heraldry as art : an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England (1907)
Eve, George W., d. 1914 · London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 200
ne enamels were executed; but thismethod has been little, if at all, employed heraldically.In it the spaces to be filled are made of flat wires thatare bent to the requisite form and soldered into theirplaces on a metal plate, and the work then proceeds asin Champleve. In the fifteenth century,… … Fig. 174.—Shield on Champleve^Enamel from the Monument to William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, in Westminster Abbey. METHODS AND MATERIALS +77 Champleve, just as a freer kind of heraldry was aboutto supersede the decadent Gothic. This became knownin time as Limoges Enamel, though, as we know,that…
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