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Here the colours are applied in a bold, linear fashion. The reverse is enamelled with the coronet of a German Prince and also the motto, in French, 'The deceased are living here', around a red heart with skull and cross bones.\r\n\r\nIn the 17th century, new techniques of painting enamels allowed delicate portraits resembling tiny oil paintings to be created. These enamel miniatures were first fashionable in continental Europe, but were particularly in vogue in Britain from the 1720s to 1760s. Painted enamels were made by firing finely milled glass which had been coloured with metal oxides onto a metal base, usually gold or copper. The colours had to be applied and fired in several stages, according to the firing temperature required by each colour. 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