Overview

"Used to embellish objects of great value and importance, enamelling is an artistic process that has been in existence for more than 1000 years. Craftsmen from throughout the world have experimented with this complex process that fuses layers of coloured glass to metal. From the pioneering practices of the Limoges School through to the diversity of miniature painting and innovations such as photographic transfer to enamel, the history of creating representational artwork with enamels is long, diverse and consistently fascinating.Erika Speel, a leading expert in the field, has taken on the enormous task of interpreting the vast history associated with enamelling to produce the first single reference volume that surveys the entire period, and production methods, of the medium. A dedicated reference book, ""Painted Enamels"" provides lists of artists and technical information within discursive chapters on the historical developments of the different classes of work. Including details on the recognition of the painting methods for each era and the calibre of the paintings, the supporting texts also show the historical and technical changes that gave the impetus for various innovations and developments of painted enamels. Featuring 80 illustrations, ""Painted Enamels"" is an invaluable reference volume for all those who collect, study, create or enjoy enamels."

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Author:   Erika Speel
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.70cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 25.70cm
Weight:   1.329kg
ISBN:  

9780853319351

ISBN 10:   0853319359
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 March 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Netherlandish and Italian sources for painted enamels: fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; Limoges painting (painters' enamelling) from c.1500 to c.1765; Enamel portrait miniatures: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries; Genevan styles for objects of vertu: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Russian painted enamels: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries; English painted enamels: Battersea enamels of the 1750s and their successors; Painted enamels of China: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; English enamel artists of the late eighteenth century and nineteenth: Henry Bone and his followers; The revival of Limoges painting in the nineteenth century; Imitations, copies and fakes: the nineteenth century; Viennese painted enamels: eighteenth century to early twentieth; New techniques, materials and applications: the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth; The Art Enamellers: pictorial enamels, 1890s to c.1930; Biographies; Appendix 1 The goldsmith-enamellers' workshop processes; Appendix 2 Notes and quotations on the chemistry of the materials, and some underlying factors of enamelling on metal; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews

'The technical and historical information covered is an invaluable source for historians, collectors and all those with a particular interest in enamels and in the painted enamels technique... The book will constitute a good study source and reference and is a must for painted enamel enthusiasts.' Jewellery History Today 'This scholarly masterpiece represents meticulous study over many years to produce a comprehensive survey of vitreous enamel painting from its origins in fourteenth and fifteenth century glass painting to the artist enamellers of the early twentieth century ... this is a splendid book' -Guild of Enamellers '...an invaluable reference book for all those who collect, research, study, create, or enjoy enamel' - Glass on Metal 2008 '... very comprehensive and probably one of the only reference books on this process ... The book will constitute a good study source and reference and a must for painted enamel enthusiasts' - Jewellery History Today 2008 'This scholarly masterpiece represents meticulous study over many years to produce a comprehensive survey of vitreous enamel painting from its origins in fourteenth century glass painting to the artist enamellers of the early 20th century' ... This is a splendid book' - Guild of Enamellers 2008 'Highly recommended' - Choice 2008

Author Information

Erika Speel is a freelance writer, lecturer and researcher, who has examined enamels in the large collections of several public museums. She has also been involved in the cataloguing of key private collections, and with recent investigative projects on Limoges and other painted enamels. Her links with professional enamellers have included serving on the founding committee of the British Society of Enamellers, and a continuing close association with the Guild of Enamellers, as a past Chairman, as assessor of artworks and as a contributing editor for their journal. She is a contributing editor too for the international journal Glass on Metal, published under the auspices of The W. W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation and Museum in the USA, and writes also regularly for leading art-historical and collectors' magazines. Her finely illustrated book Dictionary of Enamelling, published by Ashgate in 1998, is an established source for historical, technical and scientific information.

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