Vitreous enamel
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Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C. The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smoo
Gothic châsse; 1185–1200; champlevé enamel over copper gilded; height: 17.7 cm (7.0 in), width: 17.4 cm (6.9 in), depth: 10.1 cm (4.0 in)
Chinese dish with scalloped rim, from the Ming dynasty; early 15th century; cloisonné enamel; height: 2.5 cm, diameter: 15.2 cm
Staffordshire Moorlands Pan, 2nd-century Roman Britain
Detail of painted Limoges enamel dish, mid-16th century, attributed to Jean de Court
Oskar Schindler
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Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in Ge
Vitreous enamel
…Fred Uhl Ball (1945–1985) – American enamellist who created the largest known enamel mural Oskar Schindler Rostov in Russia, with Moscow a centre of the Russian industry…
Schindler, Oskar
Schindler's factory in Kraków, 2011
Hujowa Górka ("Prick Hill"), the execution place in Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (2007)
Schindler's factory at the former site of Brünnlitz labor camp in 2004