European enamels . century and declined about theend of the seventeenth. The labours of Frenchantiquaries, among whom may be mentioned , M. Bourdery, and the Abb£ Texiel, havedone something to identify the various workmen;but after all their efforts, the subject is in thegreatest confusion, and out of the crowd only fiveor six names emerge to which any definite person-ality can be attached. They probably guarded their secrets as well asthey could; hence the art was transmitted fromfather to son. We find prominent among them thefollowing families: The Penicauds, the Lim-ousins, the Noua
European enamels . century and declined about theend of the seventeenth. The labours of Frenchantiquaries, among whom may be mentioned , M. Bourdery, and the Abb£ Texiel, havedone something to identify the various workmen;but after all their efforts, the subject is in thegreatest confusion, and out of the crowd only fiveor six names emerge to which any definite person-ality can be attached. They probably guarded their secrets as well asthey could; hence the art was transmitted fromfather to son. We find prominent among them thefollowing families: The Penicauds, the Lim-ousins, the Nouailliers, the Reymonds, theCourteys, the Courts, and the Laudins. Thesefamilies were to some extent contemporaries. Indescribing their work, however, it is best to groupthem by families, to avoid confusion. I do notpropose to go in detail into the genealogies, whichafter all are somewhat conjectural, and are reallynecessary only to antiquaries, or to those who areengaged in verifying the authenticity of enamels,no.
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