This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...above. Most of the Byzantine enamels were executed on plates of gold: and Theophilus gives full details regarding the cutting of the gold bands, soldering them to the surface of the gold excipient, pulverising the coloured glasses, placing them in the cells formed by the filigree, joining the piece, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...above. Most of the Byzantine enamels were executed on plates of gold: and Theophilus gives full details regarding the cutting of the gold bands, soldering them to the surface of the gold excipient, pulverising the coloured glasses, placing them in the cells formed by the filigree, joining the piece, and polishing the surface. The art was practised in Constantinople down to the 14th century, but in the meantime events occurred there which led to the dispersal of the enamellers to all parts of the world, east as well as west. It was at this time, doubtless, that it reached the northern borders of China, probably through Armenia and Persia. The thirteenth century was the period, as was stated in the historical introduction in Chap. I., that the conquest of nearly the whole of Asia and part of eastern Europe by the Mongols opened up a way for the introduction of new industrial arts, and there is reason to believe that the art of enamelling was first practised in China about this time. The court that the great Khans held at Fig. 89.--Vase Of Old Cloisonne Enamel With Gilded Dragon Coiled Round The Neck. Engraved underneath with symbols of Lamaistic Buddhism. "No. 1488-02. H. i6J in., D. 7$ in. Fig. 90.--Tncense Burner With Cover. Cloisonne Enamel. Hieratic Designs From the Summer Palace, near Peking. No. 257-76 H. 11 in., D. 13 in. Karakorum in Mongolia became the place of rendez-vous of a crowd of political envoys, Roman Catholic and Nestorian missionaries, merchants and adventurers coming from all parts of the western world. There was a Mohammedan quarter in Karakorum, and a number of residents collected there from Syria and Muscovy after the Mongolian invasion of these countries. When the friar William de Rubruc arrived a.t Karakorum in the...
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