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according to the count’s manner, a gentle colliqua- 
tion by a gradual flow approach of the pidlure to the 
fire r and as flow a removal of it back again, can be 
called encaujllc painting ? 
I might add much more to my purpofe, by enter- 
ing into the nature of varnifhes, pottery, glafs-making, 
and furnaces of the antients 5 which would throw 
more light upon the fubjedt, and {hew, that they were 
well acquainted with what colours would bear the 
Are, as well as with fuch as would not ; for Plinv’s 
chapter upon the different pigments inuft have been 
collected from antient authors as well as from his 
contemporaries, and contains a catalogue of thofe ufe cl. 
by the painters, which conflfls of a very great num- 
ber of articles. 
That- the antients were well acquainted with ena- 
mel painting cannot be doubted, lince there are great 
numbers of their enamel pieces in the cabinets of the 
curious in many places. There is one, which is a, 
Roman cup curioufly enamelled upon brafs, found at 
Froxfield, in the poflcflion of Lord Hertford : there 
is a Roman enamelled platter upon the fame metal,, 
probably belong to the cup, with figures and in- 
feriptions curioufly painted in the enamel, of Leg. ii. 
Aug. and Leg- xx.v.v. in Eiitain, a drawing of 
which Dr. Stukely made in its colours. (See Buono- 
roti's Oflervazzioni on the Duke of Tufcany's Medal- 
lions.) And the Dobtor has now an enamelled fibula 
of the fame kind of workman fhip ; nor are there 
wanting cups with portraits of fome friends enamelled 
at the bottoms, wh’ch were ufed inter pacufo, to 
drink to their memories j and I cannot but think it 
probable, 
