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History of Enameling

Greeks- 5th century B.C.
- pieces of sculpture covered with inlaid gold (form of glaze) enamel.
- in 4th cent. B.C., forerunner of cloissone (gold wire used)

British Isles - Celtic enamels
- 3rd century A.D.
-for decorative shields and swords done in champleve
- colors mainly lapis blue and strong red and white

Byzantine - later 9th - 11th centuries
- cloissone type on gold
- fine collection at Met. Mus. (J. Pierpont Morgan collect.)

Germans - strongly Byzantine in character
- cloissone and champleve
- use of bronze necessitated use of opaque colors instead od [[of]] transparents (tin content in bronze made transparents too cloudy 
- fine collectionin Guelph Collection
(Clev. Mus. of Art)