Techniques / enamelled

These things were made in Limoges, Germany and France between AD 400 and 1899. Enameller signing I.D.C. made one of them.

The Holy Thorn Reliquary

Casket of St Valerie

Rock-crystal tankard

Panel; Diane de Poitiers

Ostrich egg cup

The Deblĭn cup

Shell-shaped agate cup

The Guild of Smiths’ cup

Heliotrope ewer

Lapis lazuli vase

The ‘Cellini’ vase

Casket, Abraham and Isaac

Turquoise glass goblet

Plaque, Minerva

Aeneas leaving Carthage

Plaque, Venus and Cupid

Plaque, Minerva

Judith with the head of Holofernes

Esther’s feast

Mucius Scaevola

Mirror back, Dido and Diana

Mirror back, Meleager and Atlanta

Mirror back, Cupids

Subjects from the ‘Aeneid’

Cup (‘Scheuer’)

The Woman of the Apocalypse

Apollo and the Muses

Casket, the story of Tobit

Portrait of an unknown man

Wine cup, Jacob’s Ladder

Casket panel, triumph of Caesar

Casket panel, Boating party

Casket panel, judgement of Paris

Casket panel, seizure of Helen

Agate and gold spoon

Agate and gold spoon

Agate and gold spoon

Gold knife and fork

Gold wedding knife

Gold fork with gems

Case with knife and fork

Spring driven table clock

Venus between two dolphins

The Adoration of the Magi

Double cameo, woman’s head

Cameo of Minerva

Tooth- and ear-pick, case

Ring with cameo of an African man

Bead, Moses and the Tablets of the Law

Agate scent-bottle

Cupid on horseback

Virgin and Child

Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)

The Judgement of Paris

The Conversion of Saul

St George and the Dragon

Hippocamp with a female rider

The Grenville Jewel

Portrait miniature locket

Nereid and child

Monster fish and rider

Pendant with hawking party

Pendant, the Coronation of the Virgin

Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

Jewish marriage-ring

Plaque, The Sale of Cupids

Ring with boxwood pendant

An oriental prince

Transylvanian gold cup