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European Enamels 
(Continued from page 62) 
With the revival of classical learn¬ 
ing which brought about the Renais¬ 
sance, and the subsequent develop¬ 
ment of secular thought, art ceased 
to be what it had been throughout 
the Middle Ages, merely the hand¬ 
maid of the church. No longer did 
the enamellers, Byzantine, Gothic or 
Lombardic, work solely to adorn re¬ 
ligious works, and ecclesiastical de¬ 
sign broadened into secular applica¬ 
tion, a return to classical usages, to 
a heritage of beauty and unrestraint 
from which, for some centuries, art 
had been kept by ecclesiasticism. By 
the 12th Century the art was well 
established to Cologne, Treves, Huy, 
Maestricht and Verdun, thence per¬ 
haps to Paris. Limoges and the 
Rhenish provinces of France became 
prolific in champlevc enamels by the 
end of the 12th Century. It is to 
1189 A. D. that the earliest known 
enamels of Limoges are ascribed. 
There an enormous quantity of 
work, good, bad and indifferent, was 
turned out during the 13th Century, 
an art turning to a trade thereafter, 
and declining to neglect in the 14th, 
when it went out of fashion alto¬ 
gether. 
However, toward the end of the 
15th Century the public in general 
had broken through Byzantine, 
Gothic and Lombardic esthetic domi¬ 
nation and breathed the clearer air 
of the Renaissance, becoming imbued 
with a desire for gentler, more beau¬ 
tiful things, and again the old town 
of Limoges, ever awake to the com¬ 
merce of demand, started up her 
enamelling ovens and went at the 
art with renewed vigor, retaining a 
supremacy that has handed down to 
us priceless treasures of the sort, ex¬ 
quisite and satisfying. This fine style 
may be said to date from 1530 to 
1580 (being preceded by the early 
style, 1475-1530), followed by a 
minute style, 1580-1630 preceding the 
decadence that dated from 1630 to 
the close of the manufactory in the 
18th Century. 
The Limoges Enamels 
Limoges enamels immediately bring 
to mind the names of such great 
artists in enamels as the Penicauds, 
Courtey, Limousin, Reymond and 
Laudin. 
The painted enamels of the early 
style are executed with much white 
painting over purplish - brown 
grounds, the figures bearing strong 
resemblance to the Flemish type. 
The coloring in these examples is 
very beautiful. 
The painted enamels of the fine 
style exhibit the great advance 
achieved by draughtsmen under Ital¬ 
ian influence. The glazes are finer 
and the finishing process a more 
careful one. At this period painting 
in grisaille became popular. By this 
term is meant monochrome painting 
in enamel, the light being worked 
up over a dark ground, stage by stage 
in white, leaving the chiaroscuro to 
be determined by the effect of the 
ground showing through. Shading 
was often further enhanced by black 
lines or hatchings. The resulting 
grey tone gives the style its name. 
Later, relief from the monotony of 
grey was found by the addition of 
one or two tints, such as flesh tint, 
as may be seen in the work of Jean 
Penicaud, Pierre Reymond and Leon¬ 
ard Limousin. Perhaps Pierre Rey¬ 
mond distinguishes himself as ex¬ 
hibiting the finest color sense, though 
he may not have possessed Leonard 
Limousin’s qualities of bold and di¬ 
rect handling. This latter artist who 
worked from 1532 to 1574 and ad¬ 
vertised himself in a little panel, 
introduced into one of his works, as 
“Enameller and Painter to the Cham¬ 
ber of the King,’’ was a consummate 
portraitist, and executed some splen¬ 
did portraits in enamel. Anyone who 
is acquainted with Italian faience 
will be struck between the relation¬ 
ship in effect of Maiolica ware and 
Limoges enamels. 
After Jean Limousin, descendant 
of the great Leonard, and his school, 
enamelling as a truly fine art began 
to die out at Limoges in 1610. Colin, 
Martin, Poncet, Landin and the 
Noalhers carried on the work, Jean 
Limousin standing shoulders above 
them all. But Tontin introduced 
enamel painting on gold in 1732 and 
the products became daintily and in¬ 
sipidly delicate, quite in the taste of 
Louis XIV and his successors, until 
at last enamelling became little bet¬ 
ter than a rivalling imitation of china 
painting. 
The Window Box With the Color Scheme 
(Continued from page 15) 
bit of yellow tuberous rooted be¬ 
gonias. The yellow of these last is 
always soft and lovely. The Rex 
begonia with the white and green 
leaves would blend well with such a 
collection. 
A variety of the funkias, with white 
and green striped leaves, is very 
pretty in a window-box. One attrac¬ 
tive box had a row of green and 
white vincas extending its full length, 
back of them a row of funkias, and 
lastly a row of the umbrella palms. 
None of these has blooms that amount 
to anything, but they are lovely in 
themselves, are inexpensive, and last 
through the summer. 
Any number of arrangements of 
coleus may be made. A simple box 
of yellow nasturtiums with the deep 
red velvet coleus is exceedingly 
pleasing. 
Planting and Care 
There must be sufficient space to 
allow new root growth, and the 
new branches that are to come must 
have breathing space also. We must 
think of this when we set out the 
plants. 
In transplanting these plants, dig a 
hole in the earth the size of the pot 
the plant is in; tip the potted plant 
on its side and gently jar the pot until 
the earth is loosened, when the whole 
thing will slide from the pot. Place 
it in the hole prepared for it, and 
gently and firmly press the earth 
around it. By this means all the 
little ends of the roots remain un¬ 
broken, and it is at the ends of the 
roots that the little root-mouths are 
found through which all the nourish¬ 
ment for the plant must pass. Furth¬ 
ermore, there must be enough water 
given to carry the food down to the 
ends of the roots which are toward 
the bottom of the box. Investigate, 
once in a while, and see what condi¬ 
tion the earth in the bottom of the 
box is in. 
One of the foes to a successful 
window-box in large cities is the fine 
dust that settles on the leaves, choking 
and filling their respiratory system, 
as it were. In smaller towns, where 
there is more space, this is of minor 
importance. The old saying that 
plants breathe through the leaves is, in 
a measure, true, and the leaves must 
be kept clean in order to preserve the 
plant’s health. Spray the plants after 
the sun goes down, and the dew, the 
cooling night breezes, and the rays of 
the morning sun will act like a magic 
tonic. 
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