As the plates are every time subjected to a high red heat, it is obvious that enamels must be the most durable of all kinds of paintings.
For large enamels it is necessary to use copper, as they require a heat which would melt plates of gold.
At Jaipur red, blue and green enamels are laid upon pure gold, and the richness and brilliancy of the result have raised the enamels of that place to the first rank among those of all the East.
During the whole Tudor period several small bindings of gold ornamented with enamels were made.
Legend says that the head was brought to Ragusa in 1026, but even the Byzantine enamels scarcely look as old as that; and the occurrence of two half-lengths of S.
A broad necklace, composed of fine enamels cloisonnés with gold and formed of several rows, lay upon the lower portion of the neck, and allowed to be seen the clean, firm contour of two virgin breasts like two golden cups.
At times a sigh made her breast heave and raised the enamelsof her necklace.
These two lovely maidens, the one brilliant with enamels and precious stones, the other scarcely veiled in a transparent tunic of gauze, formed a charming group on the brilliantly painted car.
She had observed neither her pallor, followed by a deep blush, nor the brighter gleam of her glance nor the rustling of the enamels and pearls of her necklace rising and falling with her bosom.
Strangely lighted, half by the rising moon, half by the light of the lamps, in a costume in which gold and enamels sparkled intermittently, he resembled Osiris, or Typhon rather.
The finest enamel work on bronze in the world was produced in England and Ireland, and probably, although definite proof has not yet been forthcoming, in Scotland, the enamels of which may have been imported and may not.
The people who produced these enamels and the local peoples who purchased them, including the Caledonians, were far removed from a state of savagery.
At first red enamel was used as a substitute for red coral, but ultimately blue, yellow, and white enamels were produced.
It is possible that blue enamel was a substitute for turquoise and lapis lazuli, the precious stones associated with the mother goddesses of Hathor type, and that yellow and white enamels were substitutes for yellow and white amber.
I have given the name of majolica to that class of ornament, whose surface is covered with opaque enamels of a great variety of colours.
Everyone now knows how successfully these people used pottery for the ornamentation of their buildings, and how ingeniously they mixed transparent and opaque enamels to obtain an unprecedented harmony of effect.
There was at that time such an earnest desire to find suitable materials for art decorations, that the new enamels soon ceased to be exclusively applied to architectural purposes.
By the beginning of the fourteenth century, Limoges enamels have fallen into that state of damnation from which they have never attempted to rise.
No comparison should be made with enamels in colour, for they occupy a different category--similar to cameo.
The coloration of the white is comparatively simple and is done by transparent enamels finely ground and evenly spread over the white after the latter has been fused.
There are many of these so-called enamels to-day, which are much easier of accomplishment than the true enamel, but they possess none of the beautiful quality of the latter.
All transparent enamels are made opaque by the addition of calx, which is a mixture of tin and lead calcined.
It is also noteworthy that enamels composed of a great amount of soda or potash, as compared with those wherein red lead is in greater proportion, are more liable to crack and have less cohesion to the metals.
The process consists of the shapes of the various parts of the relief being selected for the different enamels, and these enamels melted together, in the mould of the relief, which is finished with lapidary's tools.
The composition of the substance enamel which is used upon metal does not vary to any great extent from the enamels employed upon pottery and faience.
For if enamels do not run together whilst in a melted state, as is seen in the case of painted and basse-taille enamels, there should be no necessity for it in this process.
It is most apparent when parts of a work are true enamels and parts are done in the manner described above.
They are copies of enamelsby Nardon and Jean Penicaud, Leonard Limosin, Pierre Raymond, Courtois and others.
Many of the enamels are changed in colour by the difference of the proportion of the parts composing the flux, rather than by the change of the oxides.
In coloured painted enamels the white is coloured by transparent enamels spread over the grisaille treatment, parts of which when fired are heightened by touches of gold, usually painted in lines.
Both the Henri Deux ware and Palissy's colored enamels brought fame to France.
He did, however, find out by his experimenting how to get marvelous colored enamels of another kind, and this was a very important discovery.
And you recollect how long it took to discover those enamels we are now using," answered Mr. Croyden.
All the objects--from the jewellery andenamels to the furniture and hangings--which this decorative art is supposed to decorate, are the merest excuse and sham.
It is this kind of frit which serves as a radical to almost every enamel; and by varying the proportions of the ingredient, more fusible, more opaque, or whiter enamels are obtained.
With this product glasses are generally coloured blue, as well as enamels and pottery glaze.
Black enamels are made with peroxide of manganese or protoxide of iron; to which more depth of colour is given with a little cobalt.
Such are the principal coloured enamels hitherto obtained by means of metallic oxides; but since the number of these oxides is increasing every day, it is to be wished that new trials be made with such as have not yet been employed.
The style is embodied in jars and dishes generally of large dimensions, decorated in underglaze blue of muddy tone, with dull red, green, purple and yellow enamels and gilding added at a subsequent firing over the glaze.
When the enamels are hardened and the whole polished, the product is a thing of marvelous beauty.
Upon a metallic base, as a vase, placque or box, an artist draws a design; this design is then outlined with fine wires of gold and silver, then enamels of various colors are filled in.
Colinot, of Paris, has employed with great skill colored enamels in the imitation of Japanese work.
Other qualities are painted over the glaze with colored enamels made from glass (or silica, litharge, and nitre) and white-lead.
In some cases the enamels used for this super-ornamentation are so transparent that the cracks can be seen through them.
Later, the brilliancy of the enamels is toned down, and the execution of the designs is more careful and refined.
Here, as in the Persian ware, their turquoise blue is very effective, and the decoration in enamels reflects faithfully the tone of Oriental ornament.
The preparation and application of the enamels have been described elsewhere.
We have seen what may here be especially recalled, enamels and metallic lustre applied to pottery, with an almost bewildering brilliancy.
The other enamels employed were yellow, brown, blue, and green, and were produced from metals almost identical with those employed by the Egyptians.
The scale ascends from the simple earthy colourants applied to the unglazed pot in the manner of the American Indian up to the splendid enamels of China and the sumptuous but sterile wonders of--shall we say--Sevres or Worcester.
The length is rather more than eight inches, and the whole key is divided into five compartments, ornamented in enamels and in gold.
Martin Minguez says that enamelling was done at Gerona in the fourteenth century, and Moorish enamels were certainly produced at Cordova and Cuenca from comparatively early in the Middle Ages.
Antonio, then, being pushed on by Bartoluccio, not only learnt to set jewels and to fire enamels on silver, but was also held the best master of the tools of that art.
Giovanni, coloured by the action of fire, which are such that they could be scarcely improved with the brush; and some of his marvellous enamelsmay be seen in other churches in Florence, Rome, and other parts of Italy.
Pierre Courtois (or Courteys) made just about the end of our century the largestenamels which ever came out of Limoges with life-size figures of the Virtues.
In recent years enamels have attracted much attention, and the recent presentation of the Barwell collection to the British Museum brought the Limoges work into prominence again.
The London Illustrated News reproduced a series of Limoges enamels in the Barwell collection that are marvellous in color and artistic excellence.
The colourings of enamels vary; in some the groundwork is white, in others pink or rose-colour or blue.
The enamels of China and Japan so extensively imported into this country of late years are chiefly made by filling cloisons or cells formed of fine metal wires or plates with coloured enamels and then firing them.
The household enamels of English make consist chiefly of those beautiful little boxes, trinkets, and domestic objects made at Battersea and Bilston in the eighteenth century.
Some remarkably charming boxes are met with stamped with the name of Lille, in France, where many such objects were made--the English enamels of that period are rarely if ever marked.
In the later Limoges enamels the surface with which the copper base was overlaid was painted, very much in the same way as the miniature painters on enamels operated in after-years.
The enamels used for the ground were tinted rose, blue, and other shades, and ornamented with painted pictures and mottoes.
The pleasing little trinket and patch boxes of enamels and glass, referred to in another chapter, were given from sentimental motives as evidenced by their inscriptions.
Those who frequent the more important museums often associate enamels with the costly and rare enamels of Limoges, and the choice bits of Italian enamelsseen in the cases of metals where the most valuable curios are gathered together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enamels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
