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Title: European enamels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cunynghame, Henry H (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935
Subjects: Enamel and enameling
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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h originals, even expert antiquaries cannottell the difference. He showed me a number oforiginals, side by side with copies. They wereindistinguishable. He has added a considerablenumber of missing parts to several shrines, withsuch skill that the experts cannot tell which is newand which is old ; and as the new parts are notdistinguished by any marks or name, when Mr.Beumers dies it will be impossible to know the oldfrom the new. This will considerably diminish thevalue of the shrines as objects of study. To see some of the imitations of Limoges casketswhich the above artist has executed, old wood,rusty locks, and all, ought to convince any one howrash it is to buy a piece of enamel merely on in-spection. I ought to add that Mr. Beumers doesnot confine his attentions to imitations, but hasproduced many important original works, and is oneof the best-known makers of ecclesiastical plate inGermany. Perhaps of all the shrines in Germany, that of 74 SHRINE OF ST. HERIBERT, DEUTZ. COLOGNE
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MEDIEVAL ENAMELS St. Heribert, at Deutz, opposite Cologne, best meritsattention, from its beauty and very perfect condition.No description can really give an idea of this splen-did work. Along the sides are relief figures in giltsilver of the apostles, Judas being included, andalso having his aureole. Between them are enamelrepresentations of the twelve greater prophets, withMoses and David added. Each apostle holds abook with his sentence of the Creed written on it,and each prophet holds a scroll with his typicalutterance. On the top are scenes from the life ofSt. Heribert. The colours are two shades of bluemelting into white, and green melting into yellow.In the spaces between the circular plates of enamelon the lid are repouss 6 patterns of grotesque animals.Stamps appear in places to have been used toproduce them. There have been restorations donein various parts, but the main portions of the workare intact. Very little cloisonne, if any, has beenused in the Champleve work, the ef

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