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Сообщение от heir 1566211

Mass production of those years working for the suburbs.
Worth a dime. Today, I think, up to 1 tys.r.

Thank you dear heir!
But I have another question. I forgot to specify in the first place report finds (Peterhof rn Len. Reg.). This hot enamel. But if hot enamel, then how can such a mass production? And how it could be worth a penny in those days?
Hot enamel:
Enamel (French email, from Frankish smeltan - melting; ancient Russian Enamels) - First, the technique used in jewelry, art, and secondly, a glassy alloy containing metal oxides. Enamel can be cold (without burning) and hot, with a painted metal oxides pasty mass is put on a specially treated surface and is subjected to high temperature firing, which results in a glassy layer of color.
Among the many areas of decorative and fine arts enamel is the most difficult and complex, comparable to the jewelry business.
Secrets of the enamel on the Rus were well-known masters, but lost after the Mongol invasion. Only in the XIV century in Moscow and Novgorod revived Russian enamel art. In Western Europe, enamel decorated with jewels and luxuries of kings and high dignitaries of the church. In Russia, the best enamel school serving the treasury of the Kremlin. Laborious, jewelry and expensive machinery was expensive for a royal houses, churches and the Russian nobility. Enamel technique is widely used company Sazikov and Faberge.
The highest achievements of art enamel abroad XIX-XX centuries been associated with the Faberge firm, based in St. Petersburg in 1842, did not anyone famous comes from the French by Gustav Faberge.
The whole process of firing and enameling requires the ability, skill, patience and knowledge of the secrets of color and properties of each metal oxides. Enamel somewhat reminiscent of masters for the production of violins, knowing the secrets of lacquer, wood, etc.
The molten mass of pigment applied to the metal plates of gold, silver and copper. Solidify, the enamel forms a hard, glassy surface, bewitching eyes glitter paint, as if lit from within.
Hot enamel combines many different techniques and ways of processing, such as metal and enamel itself, enabling a variety of solutions, both decorative and hard-scenic. Paints used are glassy powders, bred by water, which are applied to a clean copper or steel of high quality. The plates are fired in a muffle furnace at a temperature of 850 degrees Celsius. After firing, the paint layer to the quality of glass. Depending on the complexity of composition and pictorial tasks, the plates are held from 5 to 60 firings. Once deposited the next layer, the master is not free to interfere in the interaction between paint and fire. It can only, based on knowledge of material and insight to regulate the time and temperature of roasting. From this combination of deliberate and precise actions on the accident is born uniqueness of each piece. Repeat it can not even author. Hot enamel, by its very nature, there is only one copy.