. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. steel, by being hammered intoengraved hollows which have been undercut with a roughened processes of Enamelling are very various. In the cloison process:bent bands or fillets of metal (cloisons) are soldered-on to the metalground, and the hollows or cells thus formed are filled vpith pulve-rised glass paste (glass coloured with metallic oxides) which are thenvitrified by heat. In the sunk or champ-lev6 process: the hollowsin the metallic gro
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. steel, by being hammered intoengraved hollows which have been undercut with a roughened processes of Enamelling are very various. In the cloison process:bent bands or fillets of metal (cloisons) are soldered-on to the metalground, and the hollows or cells thus formed are filled vpith pulve-rised glass paste (glass coloured with metallic oxides) which are thenvitrified by heat. In the sunk or champ-lev6 process: the hollowsin the metallic ground are produced by the graver, or by castingand subsequent chasing, and are then filled with enamel. Nielloresembles black enamel: the enamel paste being replaced by a com-position of metal and sulphur. Enamel work (sunk-work) was known in Antique times. TheCologne enamel was celebrated in the Middle Ages. Cloison enamelhas been practised in the East, in China, and in Japan, from theearliest times. The so-called Limoges enamel is painted on a plainmetal ground, without any previous cloisons or any sunk-fields for 282 EEPEATING ^^^^^^
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