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Ornamenten voor edelsmeden
Can I see it?
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Where is “Ornamenten voor edelsmeden” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
We get a glimpse of a goldsmith and his apprentice at work: the fire in the open kiln is raised to the right temperature with a pair of bellows. Enamel colours have different melting points and so must be fired one by one. Nowadays an enameller can regulate the kiln with great accuracy: in the past the temperature had to be gauged from experience and by the colour of the flames.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-1894-A-18419
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain






