Capitolo 76
arts. Of such Anglo-Saxon job, an ancient poem in the Book of Exeter
it testifies:
"For one a marvelous ability
in the art of jeweler you/he/she is provided
Full oft he decorates and well it decorates
The nobles of a powerful king."
You enamel Celtic they are interesting, having usually put in the spaces
among the wandering one it laces of this school of goldsmithing. The
You cross of Cong it is among the most famous champions of this job,
and also the heads on the Wine glass of Ardagh.
The monk Theophilus describes the process of enamelling in a graph
way. He directs his/her workers for "to adapt their gold pieces in everybody
the settings in which you/they will have put" the gems of glass (from that us
sees that him insignia the method of cloisonne). "You cut the small ribbons of
very thin gold", him continuous "in that you will bend and
way whatever job that you desire to do in enamel, if the you look for,
knots or the small flowers or birds or animals or figures." Him then
one admonish to braise him/it with the greatest care, two or three times,
until all the pieces they firmly stick to the dish. To prepare the
glass in dust, Theophilus starts putting a piece of glass in the
shots, and, when you/he/she is become burning, him "throws in a copper vase
in that there is water, and it immediately flies in the small fragments
what You interruption with a round pestle up to that rather the fine. The next footstep
it is to put the dust in his/her destined cloison, and to put the whole one
you bejewel on a thin piece of iron on that a cover goes to well to protect
I enamel him/it from the carbons, and it intensely put him/it partly warm
of the fire." Theophilus recommends that this small iron cover is
"excellently pierced all on so that the holes can be in the apartment and
wide, and out more excellent and it makes rough to stop the cinders if from
them happen you/they should fall on him." This trial to shoot can have
a lot of times to be repeated, up to that the fillings of enamel every space
uniformly. Then it follows the tedious assignment to burnish; putting the