Word: enamels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state on condition that they be shown intact -- the collections of Gachet, Chauchard, Kaganovitch, Personnaz and others -- were also folded into Orsay. In all, the museum's holdings comprise 2,300 paintings and 250 pastels, 1,500 sculptures, 1,100 miscellaneous art objects from furniture to enamel plaquettes, 13,000 photographs (a collection built from scratch in the past eight years) and a large but unspecified number of architectural plans, mock- ups, details, fragments and models...
When Jenny visited the dentist for her checkup, he asked her if she threw up often; the acid had been affecting her tooth enamel. Her dentist scared her, but when she tried cutting back on her binging and purging, she found it almost impossible...
...story began in 1977. Aryeh, an avid collector of Russian artifacts who had emigrated from Iran to the U.S., owned some 100 of Faberge's plain enamel eggs, which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride...
When Venetian troops ransacked Constantinople early in the 13th century, they brought home religious ornaments created by the world's finest craftsmen: goldsmiths, jewelers, wizards who worked in enamel. The Treasury of San Marco Venice (Abrams; 337 pages; $60) displays the loot, and poring over the glittering pictures is like wandering in a celestial gem shop. Among the glories here are a lyrical alabaster-and-pearl paten, which may have come from St. Sophia, and an opulent, dappled sardonyx chalice decorated with enamel figures that resemble mini-mosaics. There are treasuries or reliquaries in important churches all over Europe...
...very handsomely makes clear. In the early part of the century, designers like the Spaniard Luis Masriera were turning out lovely art nouveau brooches--golden angels balancing gleaming pearls--and as late as 1949 Salvador Dali transformed one of his famous surrealistic eyes into a diamond, ruby and enamel watch. The gold and the jewels still shine in the '80s, but too many designers, alas, seem to specialize in the weird and bizarre...