Word Finder - enamelling

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To coat or decorate with enamel.

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To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.

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To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.

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to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth

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To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

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An application of enamel.

Edward Dillon (Glass, 1902) has very properly laid stress on the importance of the enamelled Saracenic glass of the r3th, 14th and r 5th centuries, pointing out that, whereas the Romans and Byzantine Greeks made some crude and ineffectual experiments in enamelling, it was under Saracenic influence that the processes of enamelling and gilding on glass vessels were perfected.

This large proportion of magnesia undoubtedly supplied the stability required to withstand the process of enamelling.

The enamelling process was probably introduced in the early part of the 13th century; most of the enamelled mosque lamps belong to the 14th century.

Dillon has pointed out that the process of enamelling had probably been derived from Syria, with which country Venice had considerable commercial intercourse.

The native glass-workers adopted the process of enamelling, but applied it to a form of decoration characteristically German.

Tc such a depth of debasement had the ceramic art fallen in Owari, that before the happy renaissance of the past ten years, Nagoya discredited itself by employing porcelain as a base for cloisonn enamelling.

Its characteristics were a flamboyant and fantastic treatment of plant and animal (though not of human) forms, a free use of the geometrical device called the " returning spiral," and much skill in enamelling.

There is a school of industrial art (engraving and enamelling watch cases) and a school of watch-making (including instruction in the manufacture of chronometers and other scientific instruments of precision).

No enamelling was ever done by Egyptians, and the few rare examples are all of Roman age due to foreign work.

All this while, the minor arts of enamelling, miniature, glass-painting, goldsmith's work, jewellery, engraving, tapestry, wood-carving, pottery, &c., were cultivated with a spontaneity and freedom which proved that France, in the middle point between Flanders and Italy, was able to use both influences without a sacrifice of native taste.

Other industries include bleaching, silk-weaving, fire-clay and enamelling works, and a sanitary appliances factory.

New contrasts are formed by the juxtaposition of differently toned metals; or these with an inlay of haliotis shell, introduced by Alfred Gilbert; or of coloured wax, favoured by Onslow Ford; or enamelling, perfected by Professor von Herkomer; or stained ivory, pearls, or semi-precious stones.

The art of enamelling was introduced, c. 1750, at works in Battersea, examples from which are highly valued.

Subsidiary industries, such as enamelling, are also important.