CHAPTER VII

THE FIGURE IN ENAMEL AND THE ENGRAVED PLATE AT THE BACK OF IT 61–91

Our Chief Problem is ‘A figure hard to characterize’ 61 Division of this Chapter 62 Enamelling as an artistic industry _id._ Enamel _cloisonnée_ 63 Chief extant specimens according to M. Labarte 64 ff. The Enamelled Ouche of Mr. Roach Smith 68 Enamel _champlevée_ _id._ Obscurity of the history of enamelling 69 Philostratus 70 Enamelled horse-gear 71 The Symbolism of the _icuncula_ and its Source 74 The _Book of Kells_ 76 f. Relations of Alfred with Irish travellers 78 The Tufa 79 Evidence for the Enamel’s being an insular product 80 Allegorical engraving on the back-plate 81 Dualistic theory of Sir Francis Palgrave 83 The brothers John and Philip Duncan 84 Unity of thought in the Jewel 86 Alfred’s Epilogue to his _Pastoralis_ 87 ff. Summary of this Chapter 90