Viennese enamels in the Renaissance revival style.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Speel, Erika | Copyright information

Vienna was one of the European centers of an important regeneration of earlier styles of art and ornament during the nineteenth century. One manifestation of this was that some of the goldsmiths and ornamental painters in the city took up Renaissance and rococo designs, at first making direct copies. Then they closely emulated some of these earlier works and created adaptations of those in which painted enamel decoration was dominant.

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