. Enamels . well-wrought enamels should befrom the beginning always; others are said to havebeen worked by untrained hands, the enamel ofeven some of the later ones being spotty orhaving flown off, or perished on the surface. An illustration is given of the back of oneplate which has been partly engraved for cham-pleve and never carried out, owing probably tosome fault having been discovered in the is of interest to the enameller, the metal beingcut away, leaving bold lines standing up, plainlyshowing the fine simplicity which is a quaUty ofnearly all in this magnificent collection
. Enamels . well-wrought enamels should befrom the beginning always; others are said to havebeen worked by untrained hands, the enamel ofeven some of the later ones being spotty orhaving flown off, or perished on the surface. An illustration is given of the back of oneplate which has been partly engraved for cham-pleve and never carried out, owing probably tosome fault having been discovered in the is of interest to the enameller, the metal beingcut away, leaving bold lines standing up, plainlyshowing the fine simplicity which is a quaUty ofnearly all in this magnificent collection of stall-plates, the colours being laid in broad flat masses,early heraldry allowing scope for great breadth oftreatment. Albert Way in his paper on enamelling, quotingfrom an old manuscript wTitten when the Rollwas taken of the inhabitants of Paris, 1292,mentions the names of gold-workers designatedas Englishmen, or of London, and that of fiveenamellers then settled in Paris one was entered PLATE XVI. THE ,)!. DKCOUATION. KUKMSH, WITH CENTUKY. CHAMPLEVE ENAMELS 109 as Richardin Tesmailleur, de Londres. So itseems there were enamellers settled in Englandat this time. Is it not possible that he andothers with him may have introduced or taughtworking in enamel by the champleve method inthis country where enamelling was already notunknown, and that the stall-plates may be theresults of the labours of his pupils or of his teach-ing, or that of his contemporaries ? They areevidently, some of them at any rate, the work ofinexperienced hands; the accidental effects men-tioned in the book are more often probably theresult of imperfectly prepared colours, as well asof insufficient firing, and also an imperfect know-ledge both of applying the colours, and as onecan see by the plate in the British Museum andtwo other heraldic plates there also, a thoroughknowledge of polishing the surface finally hadnot been sufficiently acquired. There
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