Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 137
that ii8 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. the barbarians living near the ocean pour colours uponheated brass, so that these adhere and become like stone,and preserve the design represented. This passage proves at any rate in Greece and in Italyenamelling on metal was an unknown art in the thirdcentury, the time… … Fig. 100.—Champleve Enamel; French, Fourteenth Centurj-. to this period. The Celtic objects in vitreous enamel areon bronze or copper, and prove that enamelling was an artcarried on in the Roman Provinces of Gaul and Britain,which was unknown in Italy at that time. The beautiful vessel at Fig. loi,…
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