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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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s of attire. Of these there is a fine example in the Louvre.It bears marriage scenes on the lid and the armsof France and England, and the inscription :— Dosse dame, je vos aym lealmantPor die vos prie prie ne moblie mia.Vet sit mon cors a vos comandementSans mauveste et sans nultre folia. There is a smaller one at the South KensingtonMuseum with the arms of Aymer de Valence, Earlof Pembroke, upon it. The enamels are surroundedby studded nails driven into the box. There is also one in the possession of LordBalfour of Burleigh, and another which is theproperty of Mr. Jerdone Braikenridge. At Westminster the tomb of William de Valence,Earl of Pembroke, in Westminster Abbey, affordsan example of Limoges work, but is much damaged. Towards the close of the fourteenth century thetaste for enamelling had gone. Like other arts inFrance, it was extinguished by the terrible warswith the English ; nor did it revive again untilFrance had become united into one kingdom in thetime of Francis I.86
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MEDIEVAL ENAMELS The decay was marked by an advance of themerely manufacturing spirit. The later Champlev6enamels are so roughly done as to be hardly worthyto be more than kitchen utensils, although evenin their decline some traces still remain of the nobledesign which was once the glory of the artistic workof France. One of the most widely known and interestingpieces of Limoges enamelling is the brass thatonce ornamented the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet,Count of Anjou, and is now in the museum ofLe Mans. It is about two feet high. It containsa rude archaic figure of the Count, very much out ofdrawing and with very little grace or feeling in it.The costume is not that of war, but he bears ashield and sword, with a pointed cap. The dressis in green and blue. On the upper part is a Latininscription :— With thy sword, O prince, the crowd of plunderers is put to flight,And rest, through long peace, is given to the Churches. This inscription, instead of alluding to some greatnational ser

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