_The chief extant Monuments in Byzantine Enamel Cloisonnée, according to Labarte._ 1. The celebrated crown of gold, which goes by the name of the Iron Crown, is the oldest extant jewel that is enriched with enamel. It was given to the cathedral at Monza by Theodelinda, the Lombard queen, who died in 625[17]. 2. The enamels in the altar of St. Ambrose of Milan, executed in 835, must have been executed by Greek artists, who were numerous in Italy at that time. It is to be noted that the flesh tints are rendered by opaque white. 3. The enamels in the cross called the Cross of Lothaire in the treasury of the cathedral at Aix-la-Chapelle, which we hold to be Byzantine work. 4. “A jewel preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. It was discovered in 1696 (_sic_), near the Abbey of Athelney, in which Alfred the Great took refuge when he was defeated by the Danes in 878. Mr. Albert Way has given a description of it, with engravings of front and back, and in section (_The Archæological Journal_, vol. ii, p. 164). The inscription AELFRED MEC HEHT GEVYRCAN (_Alfred ordonna que je fusse fait_) which stands in the thickness of the piece, is thought to leave small room for doubt as to the origin which is attributed to it. The enamel of the obverse is executed by the process of _cloisonnage_; it represents a figure hard to characterize (_il reproduit une figure dont il est difficile de déterminer le caractère_). The flesh portions are in whitish enamel; the colours employed in the drapery are pale green and ruddy brown semi-transparent; the ground is blue. The jewel terminates in the head of an animal, in golden filigree, with all the characteristics of the oriental style. “Admitting that the inscription may apply to Alfred the Great, this jewel would not by itself be sufficient to prove that the art of enamelling was practised in England in the ninth century. The inscription might have been engraved after the king had purchased it (possibly) of a merchant from the East.” 5. The enamels which environ the gold crown preserved in the treasury of St. Mark’s, at Venice. We see there a bust of the Emperor Leo the Philosopher (886–911), who was probably the donor of this votive crown, which was made to be suspended over an altar. 6. The enamels on a chalice in the same treasury; it appears by the inscription to have been executed for an emperor who died in 944. 7. The enamels on the reliquary of Limburg. This magnificent piece was executed before 976.