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Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel
Vitreous enamel

In a discussion of material science, enamel is the colorful result of fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 degrees Celsius....
. The piece is then fired until the enamel melts, and when cooled the surface of the object is polished.






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Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel
Vitreous enamel

In a discussion of material science, enamel is the colorful result of fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 degrees Celsius....
. The piece is then fired until the enamel melts, and when cooled the surface of the object is polished. The uncarved portions of the original surface remain visible as a frame for the enamel designs.

Champlevé is distinguished from the similar technique of cloisonné
Cloisonné

Cloisonn?, an ancient metalworking technique, is a multi-step vitreous enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items....
 in which the troughs are created by soldering flat metal strips to the surface of the object. The difference between the techniques is analogous to the woodworking
Woodworking

Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood....
 techniques of intarsia
Intarsia

Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The term is also used for a similar technique used with small, highly polished stones ....
 and marquetry
Marquetry

Marquetry is the craft of covering a structural carcass with pieces of wood veneer forming decorative patterns, designs or pictures. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to free-standing pictorial panels appreciated in their own right....
.

The Mosan
Dinant

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 enamels of medieval France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 are of high quality, and the figures carved in the copper plate display a superb sense of line. The names of several Mosan goldsmith-enamellers are known.

A similar technique was known as "shippou-zogan" in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, where it was considered a form of damascening
Damascening

Damascening is the art of inlaying different metals into one another-- typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background-- to produce intricate patterns similar to niello....
.