ABSTRACT
First Published in 1998 , The Dictionary of Enamelling is the first book to provide a comprehensive guide to this most diverse of the decorative arts.Indispensable for anyone interested in the evolution of enamelling technique, the book includes some 400 entries covering every aspect of its history. There are entries on key pieces, individual enamellers, designers, schools, techniques, and the major achievements are described in every era. The knowledge and insight of Erika Speel’s account are supported and enhanced by a brilliantly researched collection of 200 illustrations, 100 in colour, portraying the most dazzling and important pieces, a unique visual record of enamelling history. The Dictionary of Enamelling will be invaluable to people who collect, study, create and enjoy enamels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |1 pages
Acids
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Aeneid Master (active 1525-30) (see COLOUR PLATE 1)
entry |1 pages
Alfred Jewel, The
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Alfred Jewel, replicas and copies (see COLOUR PLATE 2)
entry |1 pages
Alpacca
entry |1 pages
Alpais, G. (working early 13th century)
entry |1 pages
Altenstetter (Attenstett) David (1547-1617)
entry |1 pages
Aluminium used for enamelling
entry |2 pages
André, Alfred (1839-1919)
entry |1 pages
Applying enamel for art methods
entry |1 pages
Ardagh Chalice (Chalice of Ardagh)
entry |2 pages
Art enamellers (see COLOUR PLATE 3)
entry |1 pages
Art Nouveau enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 4)
entry |1 pages
Arts & Crafts Movement (see COLOUR PLATE 5)
entry |1 pages
Ashbee, Charles Robert (1863-1942)
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Aventurine (Avanturine) glass / goldstone
entry |1 pages
Badges and medals (illustrated overleaf)
entry |3 pages
W.G. Ball Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent
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Ball, Fred Uhl (1945-85)
entry |1 pages
Barbedienne & Cie of Paris
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Barnes & Co. (see COLOUR PLATE 6)
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Barnes, Phillip E. (b. 1952) (see COLOUR PLATE 7)
entry |3 pages
Basse taille (basse-taille, bassetaille) (see COLOUR PLATES 8 and 9)
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Basse taille sur fond reservé
entry |1 pages
Bates, Kenneth F. (1904-94)
entry |2 pages
Battersea enamels
entry |1 pages
Baugrand, Gustav (1826-70)
entry |1 pages
Beaded enamel (see COLOUR PLATE 12)
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Benney, Gerald (working from 1966) (see COLOUR PLATE 11)
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Bibracte (Mont Beuvray), France
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Bilston, South Staffordshire (see COLOUR PLATE 13)
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Birch, William Russell (1755-1834)
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Birdlip Mirror
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Blancher, R. Ernest (1855-1935)
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Blerzy, Joseph-Etienne (working 1768-1806)
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Blueing
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Boehm (late ruth century)
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Boit (Boet, Boett), Charles (c. 1663-1727) (see COLOUR PLATE 27)
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Bone, Henry (1755-1834) (see COLOUR PLATE 14)
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Bordier, Jacques (1616-84)
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Bordier, Pierre (working 1645)
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Boucheron, Frederic (1830-1902)
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Bourdery, Louis (1859-1901)
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Bouvier, Guillaume (active in first half of 18th century)
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Boxes (see COLOUR PLATE 10)
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Boy, Peter, the Elder (1648-1727)
entry |1 pages
Bragg
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Brass
entry |1 pages
Bright cut
entry |1 pages
Britannia Silver (Britannia standard silver)
entry |1 pages
Britzin, Ivan Savelievitch (working 1860-1917)
entry |1 pages
Bronze
entry |1 pages
Burnham Signs, London
entry |2 pages
Buttons (see COLOUR PLATE 26)
entry |2 pages
Byzantine enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 95)
entry |1 pages
Camaieu, en camaieu
entry |2 pages
Cartier of Paris
entry |2 pages
Cast metal for enamelling
entry |1 pages
Castellani, Goldsmiths of Italy
entry |1 pages
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-71) (see COLOUR PLATE 15)
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Cellini Salt, The (see COLOUR PLATE 96)
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Celtic enamels
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Celtic enamels: 6th-9th centuries AD
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Ceramic Coating Company (see COLOUR PLATE 48)
entry |2 pages
Champlevé (champslevé, champs-levé)
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Châtillon/Chastillon, Louis de (1639-1734)
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Cheapside Hoard, The
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Chinese enamels (see COLOUR PLATES 16 and 17)
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Christofle
entry |3 pages
Cigarette cases, enamelled, 1880-1930 (see COLOUR PLATE 18)
entry |1 pages
Cleaning of metal for enamelling/metal preparation
entry |1 pages
Clinquant
entry |2 pages
Cloisonné de plique
entry |1 pages
Cloisonné disc brooches from 10th/11th centuries AD
entry |2 pages
Cloisonné enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 54)
entry |1 pages
Cloisonné sur fonte
entry |2 pages
Coddling
entry |1 pages
Coefficient of expansion or modulus of expansion
entry |1 pages
Coins, enamelled
entry |1 pages
Cold enamels, unfused coatings
entry |1 pages
Colette
entry |2 pages
Conques, Southern France
entry |1 pages
Copper
entry |2 pages
Counter-enamel (backing)
entry |1 pages
Court family of Limoges
entry |1 pages
Courteys/Courtois/Cortoys family of Limoges
entry |1 pages
Courtois, Nicolas André (1734-1806)
entry |1 pages
Crackle enamel
entry |2 pages
Cracks (of glaze)
entry |1 pages
Craft, William Hopkins (c. 1730-1811)
entry |1 pages
Crizzling
entry |1 pages
Cupro-nickel
entry |2 pages
Cyprus
entry |1 pages
Dalpayrat, Louis (working from 1872)
entry |1 pages
David-Andersen A/S (David Andersen), Oslo
entry |1 pages
Dawson, Nelson (1859-1942) & Edith Dawson
entry |1 pages
Decals
entry |2 pages
De Koningh, H./H. de Koningh London
entry |1 pages
Demole, Jean-Henri (1879-c.1950)
entry |1 pages
De Vroomen Design
entry |3 pages
Dials
entry |1 pages
Dinglinger family (late 17th/early 18th centuries)
entry |1 pages
Dipping (see also LIQUID ENAMEL)
entry |2 pages
Dishing
entry |1 pages
Roger Doyle Ltd
entry |1 pages
Dry process
entry |1 pages
Dub: Silversmiths of Vienna
entry |1 pages
Dufaux
entry |1 pages
Dusting of enamels for art methods
entry |1 pages
Edgar, Maureen (b.1949) (see COLOUR PLATE 19)
entry |1 pages
Eilbertus of Cologne (working c. 1130-c. 1150)
entry |2 pages
Electroforming/electrotyping
entry |1 pages
Electrophoresis
entry |1 pages
Electrostatic spraying
entry |1 pages
Elkington, Birmingham
entry |2 pages
Email de plique / de plite (see CLOISONNÉ DE PLIQUE)
entry |2 pages
Enamel: colours and their qualities
entry |2 pages
Enamels for metal
entry |1 pages
Enamel: preparation of colours for enamelling
entry |2 pages
Enamels, properties of (see COLOUR PLATES 20, 21 and 23)
entry |2 pages
Enamel: resume
entry |1 pages
Enamelling: the techniques or methods
entry |2 pages
Engine-turning
entry |3 pages
English painted enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 24)
entry |1 pages
Enlevage à l'aiguille
entry |2 pages
Escol Panels
entry |1 pages
Essex, William and his workshop (see COLOUR PLATE 25)
entry |1 pages
Etching
entry |1 pages
Experimental techniques: 20th century (see COLOUR PLATE 51)
entry |2 pages
Fabergé (Peter) Carl/Karl (1846–1920) (see COLOUR PLATES 29, 30 and 41)
entry |2 pages
Fakes and refurbishments (see COLOUR PLATE 32)
entry |2 pages
Falize of Paris
entry |1 pages
Fattorini/Thomas Fattorini Ltd
entry |1 pages
Fauré, Camille (1872–1947)
entry |1 pages
Ferro Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
entry |1 pages
Feuillâtre, Eugène (1870–1916)
entry |1 pages
Filigree
entry |2 pages
Fillon, Normand (b. 1938)
entry |1 pages
Finishing
entry |1 pages
Fire-scale
entry |3 pages
Firing/Fusing/Baking of enamelwork (see COLOUR PLATE 22)
entry |1 pages
Firing fixture/firing support/planche
entry |1 pages
Fish Enterprises Ltd
entry |1 pages
Fisher, Alexander (1864–1936) (see COLOUR PLATE 37)
entry |1 pages
Fissures/strain lines/hair lines
entry |1 pages
Flinking (see COLOUR PLATE 71)
entry |1 pages
Flow coating
entry |1 pages
Flux/fondant/clear enamel
entry |2 pages
Foils
entry |1 pages
Fontenay, Eugène (1824–87)
entry |1 pages
Fouquet, Georges (working from c. 1880—after 1901)
entry |1 pages
Fouquet (Foucquet), Jean (c. 1420–d. 1477/81)
entry |2 pages
Frey/Michaela Frey (Wien)
entry |1 pages
Frit (frits)
entry |1 pages
Froment-Meurice, of Paris
entry |1 pages
Fromery workshop
entry |2 pages
Furnaces
entry |1 pages
Garnier Signs (London)/Garnier & Co. Ltd
entry |2 pages
Gaudernack, Florian Gustav (1865–1914)
entry |1 pages
Gautrait, L. (working in late 19th/early 20th centuries)
entry |1 pages
Genevan method (see COLOUR PLATES 31, 36 and 83)
entry |2 pages
Geoffrey Plantagenet Votive Tablet, (c. 1151) (see COLOUR PLATE 94)
entry |1 pages
Georgian Enamels
entry |1 pages
Gilding metal
entry |2 pages
Giuliano, Carlo (1831–95) (see COLOUR PLATE 33)
entry |1 pages
Glass brush
entry |1 pages
Godefroid of Huy (Godefroid de Claire) (c. 1100–73)
entry |2 pages
Gold
entry |1 pages
Goldenes Rössl von Altötting (Golden Steed of Altötting)
entry |1 pages
Grandhomme, Paul (active c. 1874–1911)
entry |3 pages
Grisaille
entry |1 pages
Grounding
entry |1 pages
Guccio di Mannaia (working in 1288–92)
entry |2 pages
Guelph
entry |2 pages
Guilloché (see COLOUR PLATES 39 and 40)
entry |1 pages
Gum
entry |1 pages
Hair-line cracks in enamel (see CRACKS and FISSURES)
entry |1 pages
Halcyon Days
entry |1 pages
Hardman, John (1811–67)
entry |1 pages
Hatching
entry |2 pages
Heraldic enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 43)
entry |1 pages
Herkomer, Sir Hubert von (1849–1914) (see COLOUR PLATE 38)
entry |1 pages
Hermeling, Gabriel (1833–1904)
entry |1 pages
Hirtz, Lucien (1864—working after 1903)
entry |1 pages
Holy Thorn, Reliquary of the (see COLOUR PLATE 46)
entry |1 pages
Huaud (Huaut, Huault) (17th century) (see COLOUR PLATES 87 and 89)
entry |2 pages
Hungarian enamels
entry |1 pages
Hydrofluoric acid
entry |3 pages
Indian enamels
entry |2 pages
Industrial enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 48)
entry |2 pages
Iron
entry |3 pages
Japanese enamels (see COLOUR PLATES 53 and 55)
entry |1 pages
Jouhaud, Léon (1874–1950)
entry |2 pages
Kempson & Mauger Ltd, London
entry |1 pages
Kiev, Russia
entry |1 pages
Killmaster, John (b. 1934) (see COLOUR PLATE 49)
entry |2 pages
King John Cup/Lynn or King's Lynn Cup (see COLOUR PLATE 93)
entry |1 pages
Klosterneuburg: the Altar by Nicolas of Verdun (Verduner Altar) (see COLOUR PLATE 91)
entry |1 pages
Knox, Archibald (1864–1933)
entry |2 pages
Lalique, René (1860–1945) (see COLOUR PLATE 97)
entry |1 pages
Lamp, enamelling at the
entry |1 pages
La Tène (see also Celtic Enamels)
entry |2 pages
Laudin, family of enamel painters of Limoges
entry |2 pages
Le Grand Roy, Henry (1851–1914)
entry |1 pages
Liberty of London
entry |1 pages
Limburg an der Lahn, Reliquary of
entry |3 pages
Limoges champlevé enamels of the medieval period (see COLOUR PLATE 44)
entry |3 pages
Limoges School Painting (see COLOUR PLATES 56, 79 and 80)
entry |2 pages
Limoges School Revival: 19th century (see COLOUR PLATE 57)
entry |1 pages
Limosin, Léonard I (Limousin) (b. c. 1505–77) (see COLOUR PLATE 58)
entry |2 pages
Liquid enamel
entry |1 pages
Liquid metals used for enamelling
entry |1 pages
Lustres/metallic lustres
entry |1 pages
McCabe McCarty, London
entry |1 pages
Mappin & Webb
entry |1 pages
Marty, Alexandre (1876–1943)
entry |1 pages
Matt finish
entry |2 pages
Medieval champlevé in Western Europe
entry |2 pages
Mérode Cup, The
entry |3 pages
Metals for enamelling
entry |1 pages
Meyer, Alfred (1832–1904)
entry |2 pages
Michaelides, Panicos E. (b. 1924) (see COLOUR PLATE 61)
entry |1 pages
Mill additions
entry |1 pages
Millefiori glass (Mosaic glass)
entry |1 pages
Millenet of Geneva
entry |1 pages
Milling
entry |2 pages
Mills, Ernestine (née Bell) (1871–1959)
entry |3 pages
Miniatures (enamels) (see COLOUR PLATES 67, 74 and 82)
entry |3 pages
Modern enamels and their origins (see also MODERN MATERIALS) (see COLOUR PLATES 62, 64, 66 and 67)
entry |2 pages
Modern materials for enamelling on metal: summary
entry |1 pages
Mosan School enamels
entry |2 pages
Moser, Georg Michael (1704–83)
entry |1 pages
Mudd, Alan (see COLOUR PLATE 65)
entry |1 pages
Muffle arch
entry |1 pages
Muss, Charles (1779–c. 1824)
entry |2 pages
Mycenaean enamels (1450–1100 BC)
entry |1 pages
Netherlandish enamels: 15th century
entry |1 pages
Nicolas/Nicolaus of Verdun (working in 1181–c. 1205)
entry |1 pages
Nitric acid
entry |2 pages
Nouailher (Noylier) family of Limoges
entry |1 pages
Oil for painting enamels
entry |2 pages
Opaline/opal/opalescent enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 69)
entry |1 pages
Opaque enamel
entry |2 pages
Opera glasses, enamelled
entry |1 pages
Orleans Master/Orleans Triptych Workshop (active end of 15th century)
entry |2 pages
Orvieto, Reliquary of (see COLOUR PLATE 98)
entry |1 pages
Overglaze colours
entry |2 pages
Paillons (see COLOUR PLATE 68)
entry |1 pages
Pala d'Oro, Venice (see COLOUR PLATE 95)
entry |2 pages
Paris enamels
entry |1 pages
Paste
entry |1 pages
Pénicaud family
entry |3 pages
Persian enamels
entry |1 pages
Petitot, Jean (1607–91) (see COLOUR PLATES 72 and 73)
entry |1 pages
Pforzheim
entry |1 pages
Phillips, Robert (1810–81)
entry |1 pages
Philostratus (writing c. AD 200–240)
entry |2 pages
Photographic transfer to enamel
entry |2 pages
Pickling
entry |1 pages
Pierreries (see COLOUR PLATE 52)
entry |1 pages
Pin-holes
entry |3 pages
Plique-à-jour (Plique à jour)/Window enamel (see COLOUR PLATE 85)
entry |1 pages
Pointillist painting/Pointillé (see COLOUR PLATE 75)
entry |1 pages
Polishing
entry |2 pages
Popelin, Claudius (active 1865–90)
entry |1 pages
Poussièlgue-Rusand
entry |1 pages
Pugin, A.W.N. (1812–52)
entry |1 pages
Putty powder
entry |1 pages
Ramsden, Omar (1873–1939)
entry |1 pages
Ratzersdorfer, Hermann (19th century)
entry |1 pages
Renaissance period enamels and Renaissance revival styles (see COLOUR PLATE 76)
entry |2 pages
Reymond family (Raymond, Ramond, Raimond, Rexmond)
entry |1 pages
Rhenish School (12th century) (see COLOUR PLATE 92)
entry |1 pages
Rich, Fred (workshop established in 1981) (see COLOUR PLATE 78)
entry |1 pages
Richet, Eugène (working from the 1860s–d. before 1889)
entry |1 pages
Richter, Jean-Louis (1766–1841)
entry |1 pages
Riquet, Alexander (working early 20th century)
entry |1 pages
Romano-British jewellery and artefacts (see COLOUR PLATE 47)
entry |4 pages
Ronde bosse (Email en ronde bosse)/Enamelling on high relief (see COLOUR PLATES 45 and 46)
entry |1 pages
Rose engine
entry |1 pages
Royal Gold Cup (c. 1380–90) (see COLOUR PLATE 100)
entry |3 pages
Russian enamels (see COLOUR PLATE 70)
entry |1 pages
Saint Stephen's Crown of Hungary (see COLOUR PLATE 99)
entry |1 pages
Sampson Mordan & Co. (S. Mordan & Co. Ltd)
entry |2 pages
Samson et Cie
entry |1 pages
Screening for enamelling (Silk-screening – Nylon-mesh screening)
entry |1 pages
Scrolling/swirling
entry |1 pages
Seeler, Margaret Rosa (c. 1909–96) (see COLOUR PLATE 60)
entry |1 pages
Seldon, Keith (working from 1970s)
entry |1 pages
Separation enamel
entry |1 pages
Sezenius, Valentin (active 1619–25)
entry |1 pages
Sgraffito
entry |2 pages
Signs, enamelled (signage) (see COLOUR PLATE 50)
entry |1 pages
Silica
entry |2 pages
Silver
entry |1 pages
Skan
entry |1 pages
Slush enamels
entry |2 pages
Snuff boxes – 17th and 18th centuries (see COLOUR PLATES 42 and 84)
entry |1 pages
Soldering for enamelling
entry |1 pages
Solvychegodsk (formerly Usolsk), Russia
entry |1 pages
Soper family
entry |1 pages
Soyer of Paris (19th century)
entry |1 pages
Soyer/Emaux Soyer
entry |1 pages
Spalling
entry |1 pages
Spicer, Henry (1743–1804)
entry |1 pages
Spraying
entry |1 pages
Staffordshire enamels
entry |1 pages
Stavelot, Abbey of (Belgium)
entry |2 pages
Stencilling/stencils
entry |1 pages
Stoning (grinding of glaze)
entry |1 pages
Supports (see also FIRING FIXTURES)
entry |1 pages
Surrey enamels
entry |2 pages
Taille d'epargne (Taille d'espargne)
entry |1 pages
Thesmar, Fernand (1843–1912) (see COLOUR PLATE 77)
entry |1 pages
Thompson Enamel
entry |1 pages
Threads, enamel
entry |2 pages
Tiffany Studios
entry |2 pages
Timofeev, Valeri (b. 1941) (see COLOUR PLATE 86)
entry |1 pages
Tissot, James (Jacques-Joseph) (1836–1902)
entry |1 pages
Tombac
entry |1 pages
Torch, firing with
entry |2 pages
Tostrup Workshop, Norway
entry |1 pages
Toutin family of enamel painters
entry |2 pages
Toye, Kenning & Spencer Ltd
entry |1 pages
Translucent or transparent enamel (see ENAMEL: COLOURS AND THEIR QUALITIES)
entry |1 pages
Traquair, Phoebe (1852–1936)
entry |1 pages
Trial or sample plates/colour tests
entry |1 pages
Tsereteli, Zurab (b. 1934)
entry |1 pages
Ugolino di Vieri (working 1329–80; d. before 1385)
entry |1 pages
Uranium, contained in enamels
entry |1 pages
Usolsk (subsequently Solvychegodsk), Russia
entry |1 pages
Van Cleef & Arpels
entry |1 pages
Vanity cases, enamelled
entry |1 pages
Vasters, Reinhold (1827–1902/9)
entry |2 pages
Venetian enamels
entry |1 pages
Vever, Henri (1854–1942)
entry |1 pages
Viennese enamels
entry |1 pages
Vilasís, Andreu (b. 1934) (see COLOUR PLATE 59)
entry |1 pages
Vitreous Enamellers, Institute of
entry |2 pages
Vitrifiable pigments
entry |1 pages
Warping/metal distortion
entry |1 pages
Wartski of London (Wartski of Llandudno)
entry |3 pages
Watches (see COLOUR PLATES 35, 88 and 90)
entry |2 pages
Weininger, Salomon (1822–79)
entry |1 pages
Wet inlay/wet packing/wet charging
entry |1 pages
Wet process
entry |1 pages
Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna
entry |1 pages
Wilson, Henry (1864–1934) (see COLOUR PLATE 63)
entry |1 pages
Winchester
entry |2 pages
Winter, Edward (working 1934–after 1970)
entry |1 pages
Zarf (see COLOUR PLATE 34)
entry |1 pages
Zincke (Zinck), Christian Friedrich/Christian Frederick (1683/4–1767) (see COLOUR PLATE 28)