European enamels . CIRCULAR PLATEAU, APPARENTLY BY JEAN COURT DIT VIGIER THE DECORATION IN GRISAILLE COMPRISES THE TRIUMPH OF DIANA, A REMARKABLE BORDER OF GROTESQUE MONSTERS,AND THE PORTRAIT AND MONOGRAM OF DIANE DE POICTIERS. PAINTED ENAMELS much sought after. The design is often good ; butthe over-employment of brilliant paillon marks agreat want of taste. There is also an enameller who seems to havelived about the end of the sixteenth century, calledPape. All sorts of conjectures have been made asto his identity. By some he is supposed to beidentical with Martin Dicolier. Several rather ni
European enamels . CIRCULAR PLATEAU, APPARENTLY BY JEAN COURT DIT VIGIER THE DECORATION IN GRISAILLE COMPRISES THE TRIUMPH OF DIANA, A REMARKABLE BORDER OF GROTESQUE MONSTERS,AND THE PORTRAIT AND MONOGRAM OF DIANE DE POICTIERS. PAINTED ENAMELS much sought after. The design is often good ; butthe over-employment of brilliant paillon marks agreat want of taste. There is also an enameller who seems to havelived about the end of the sixteenth century, calledPape. All sorts of conjectures have been made asto his identity. By some he is supposed to beidentical with Martin Dicolier. Several rather nicepieces are signed with his name. THE LAUDIN FAMILY We now come down to the Laudin family, who,with the descendants of the Nouailliers alreadymentioned, carried on the art at Limoges duringthe eighteenth century and consummated its ruin. It is the lot of most arts to flourish and then todecay. They are invented and brought to perfectionby men of genius, and their products are purchasedby the few who possess the greatest taste. Whentheir merit has become established, every one wantsa specimen, and then a crowd of imitators floodthe market with cheap substitutes. After a shorttime the article thus vilified and burlesqued
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