Painted Enamels

Erika Speel is a freelance writer, lecturer and researcher, who has examined enamels in the large collections of several public museums. She has also been involved in the cataloguing of key private collections, and with recent investigative projects on Limoges and other painted enamels. Her links with professional enamellers have included serving on the founding committee of the British Society of Enamellers, and a continuing close association with the Guild of Enamellers, as a past Chairman, as assessor of artworks and as a contributing editor for their journal. She is a contributing editor too for the international journal Glass on Metal, published under the auspices of The W. W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation and Museum in the USA, and writes also regularly for leading art-historical and collectors' magazines. Her finely illustrated book Dictionary of Enamelling, published by Ashgate in 1998, is an established source for historical, technical and scientific information.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Netherlandish and Italian sources for painted enamels: fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; Limoges painting (painters' enamelling) from c.1500 to c.1765; Enamel portrait miniatures: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries; Genevan styles for objects of vertu: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Russian painted enamels: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries; English painted enamels: Battersea enamels of the 1750s and their successors; Painted enamels of China: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; English enamel artists of the late eighteenth century and nineteenth: Henry Bone and his followers; The revival of Limoges painting in the nineteenth century; Imitations, copies and fakes: the nineteenth century; Viennese painted enamels: eighteenth century to early twentieth; New techniques, materials and applications: the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth; The Art Enamellers: pictorial enamels, 1890s to c.1930; Biographies; Appendix 1 The goldsmith-enamellers' workshop processes; Appendix 2 Notes and quotations on the chemistry of the materials, and some underlying factors of enamelling on metal; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.