Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 195
ttained muchsuccess as a miniature painter in France and in England. The newprocess consisted of applying to thin gold plates thick colours ofdifferent tints which would, after being subjected to fire, retain theirbrilliance and lustre. Petitot exercised his art on snuff boxes, butI have never met… … Fig. 225. goldsmith of Chateau Surr,who was previously distin- guished for painting inenamels, and who certainlyseems to have been one ofthe first to apply it towatches. Other Frenchand Swiss artists quicklydevoted themselves to thenew kind of enamel paint-ing. Among those whoexcelled in it may…
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