Русская художественная эмаль

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Certain regions, however, demonstrated their own specific artistic traditions. Moscow jewellers, for instance, had a predilection for the filigree technique, and also for the technique of encrusted enamel and champlevé enamel. They used freely polychrome enamelling. Craftsmen from the town of Solvychegodsk in the north of Russia were well-known for their bowls, cups, salt-cellars and jewellery decorated with painted enamels of thematic or purely ornamental character.

The technique of painting on an enamelled ground was much used by Russian masters in the eighteenth century, mainly in portrait miniatures.

This fascinating art especially flourished in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Jewellers and goldsmiths from the world-famous firm of Fabergé in St. Petersburg and from several Moscow firms owned by Pavel Ovchinnikov, Ivan Khlebnikov and Orest Kurliukov produced a wealth of objects, both useful and decorative, employing various techniques, among them those of champlevé enamel with filigree, and plique à jour. They also manufactured objects covered with enamel glaze, imparting a particularly enchanting lustre to the gold and silver decorative patterns on the surface.

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