Wire email

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Wire enamel (also called filigree enamel ) is a seldom used variety of cloisonné (also called real enamel ), an early enamel technique from China . The cells of the motif-forming webs, in which the enamel powder is melted, made in wire enamel from soldered, gekordeltem wire. In contrast to the cloisonné, the wires and the glass mass were not ground over, but the bars were left elevated. That is why only gold or silver wires were used. These practices remained alive in Eastern European folk art until the 17th century.

Early wire enamel works originated in the Orient and especially in the 12th century BC. BC on Crete , in Kouklia on Cyprus as well as in Eastern Greece. The art of enamel had its next high point in the Celtic art of the 1st to 3rd centuries. The enamel techniques of Byzantine art developed to perfection , which allowed figurative representations for the first time, were a model for enamel art of the European Middle Ages until the Ottonian period . In the 12th century, Limoges and the Rhine - Maas region became the centers of enamel art . In the 14th century z. B. the panes of the Tasselmantels and the Corvinus cups are made using this technique. The enamel tradition was continued, also with new techniques, up to the Florentine Medicis , who commissioned European goldsmiths with enamel work in the Renaissance , and up to August the Strong in Dresden .

literature

  • Glyn Daniel (Ed.): Lübbes Encyclopedia of Archeology. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1980, ISBN 3-7857-0236-1 .