Vase with champlevé enamels
Type:
Vases
Date:
250–300
Location or Findspot (Modern-Day Country):
France
Medium:
Copper alloy,
Enamel
Dimensions:
12.3 × 11.8 cm (excluding the mount)
Description:
The champlevé enameling technique used to decorate this vase involves making troughs in the surface of a metal object (in this case a copper alloy), filling those troughs with powdered glass, and then firing the object to fuse the enamel to the metal. This example was made around 250–300 in a part of France relatively close to Limoges, a city that rose to prominence roughly 900 years later precisely because of its champlevé enamels.
Relevant Textbook Chapter(s):
1
Repository and Online Resources:
• Learn more about this object on the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tags:
Artistic production,
Roman,
Western European
