Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 130
t was, however, a considerable ENAMELS. Ill time from the introduction of painting on enamels beforeany good specimens of the art were executed. Among the earliest specimens of Cloisonne enamels wasthe golden altar given to the cathedral of Sta. Sophia atConstantinople by Justinian. This altar was… … Fig. 94.—Altar Tray and Chalice, Cloisonne Enamel; Sixth Centurj-(?). St. Mark, Venice, 886-911 ; the Limburg reliquary madefor Basil II. (the Macedonian), 976; and the famous altar,the Pala dOro, in St. Marks, Venice, 976-1105, made atConstantinople, and brought from there to Venice byorder of the…
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