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Download or read book Catalogue of Medieval Enamels in the British Museum: Northern Romanesque enamel written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum has an important but little-known collection of Mosan, English and German Romanesque champleve enamels. This illustrated catalogue discusses these rare survivals from the technical, historical and art-historical point of view, bringing them together with related examples form other collections. Analyses of the metals and glasses used by the enamellers have been provided by the British Museum Research Laboratory, and the illustrations include numerous x-rays showing methods of construction.