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An assortment of decorative candles and candlesticks arranged for display.
Limoges workshops decorated altar candlesticks by applying opaque champlevé enamel onto a gilt copper ground. This technique, which involved carving or etching designs into the metal surface to create depressions that were then filled with enamel, was a specialty of the Limoges workshops during the Middle Ages.12