Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 132
n Limoges, the future great seat of the enamelindustry. The German variety may be distinguished from theFrench by the greater number of colours employed : thereis a difficulty in deciding which of the two is the earlier. The Abbe Suger, when building the Abbey of St.Denis, brought enamellers from… … Fig. 95.—Byzantine Reliquary, Cloisonne Enamel; Tenth Century. examples of the German school. One of these portablealtars in enamel, of the German school, thirteenth century,is shown at Fig. 98. The earliest Champleve enamel of theLimoges school is that of the monument to GeoffreyVOL. II. I 114…
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