champlevén.adj.
/ʃɒmpləˈveɪ//ʃampləˈveɪ/ Applied to enamel work in which the metal ground is engraved, cut out, or depressed, and the spaces filled with enamel pastes and fired.
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1856 O. Jones Gram. Ornament xvii Limoges Champlevé Enamel, from the same Museum.
1861 H. Haines Monumental Brasses i. p. ix These early enamels show the ‘champ-levé’, i.e. the copper is raised into ridges of partition between the colours.
1861 H. Haines Monumental Brasses i. p. ix Like the field of a Limoges champ-levé enamel.
1877 tr. C. Blanc's Orn. & Dress xx. 259 Champlevé enamels are sometimes called taille d'epargne enamels.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 679 In champlevé the enamelling substance is applied to the surface of the gold as ornamental details.
1906 Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 3/3 The chief seats of the champlevé work of the Middle Ages were the Rhenish provinces and Limoges.
1933 Burlington Mag. Sept. 108/1 The oldest of the few objects..are the six champlevé enamel plaques.
1938 Burlington Mag. Nov. p. xxviii/1 Little examples of Limoges champlevé.
1969 G. Sims Sand Dollar xi. 142 A fine Limoges champlevé enamel.
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