. Enamels . PAINTED ENAMELS 125 ful skill which produced so good a result in thisrather difficult and uncertain medium, which viedwith oil and water-colour painting in producingelaborate pictures. Though painted enamels have been carried outin Italy and Germany, and specimens of theseare occasionally met with, they are but few innumber and as a rule inferior in execution, andalso later in date than the early work in the samemanner done by what is generally called the laterLimoges school, to distinguish it from the workon champleve copper done there in the middleages. As we have seen, that scho
. Enamels . PAINTED ENAMELS 125 ful skill which produced so good a result in thisrather difficult and uncertain medium, which viedwith oil and water-colour painting in producingelaborate pictures. Though painted enamels have been carried outin Italy and Germany, and specimens of theseare occasionally met with, they are but few innumber and as a rule inferior in execution, andalso later in date than the early work in the samemanner done by what is generally called the laterLimoges school, to distinguish it from the workon champleve copper done there in the middleages. As we have seen, that school came to anend at the close of the fourteenth mentions a painted enamel belonging tothe Abbe Texier, of St. Christopher, which is theearliest known example of this kind of work, andhe considered that some of the effects producedby glass painters suggested a new style to enam-ellers. Very little work is known to us of thisperiod, and not till towards the end of the fifteenthcentury do we fin
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