2535) "Dinandier" (A Brassware Decorative Art), France: La Poste, France (French Post) has issued a postage Stamp of 1.65 Euro depicting this Art: Date of Stamp issue: 03.10.2022:
About Crafts - Dinandier:
A trade that dates back to the 11th or 12th century and the Middle Ages, Brassware is the art of transforming sheets of metal into a decorative or utilitarian object.
Brass does not appear to have been used extensively in Europe until the 11th or 12th century, when a considerable industry was established in the Low Countries in the district near the Meuse (Maas) River.
The name originates in the Belgian town of "Dinant", where the tradition of copper working dates back to the 12th century.
The Craftsman (or the "Dinandier") manufactures utilitarian and decorative objects by hammering from a sheet of copper, tin or tinfoil etc.
To do this, several operations are carried out by the coppersmith craftsman, precision operations that make this profession a perfect marriage between skill, thoroughness, artistic sense and technical knowledge of metalworking.
In particular, a Dinandier manufactures saucepans, copper fountains (as in Auvergne), or even molds (such as "kouglof molds" in Alsace).
By the 15th century its centre, Dinant, had become a prosperous town the name of which was synonymous with excellent brass ware.
Included in the production were such domestic articles as ewers, fire irons, candlesticks, dishes, and basins and such ecclesiastical objects as censers, aquamaniles, fonts, and lecterns.
When the town was sacked in 1466 by Charles the Bold, son of Philippe III le Bon, Duke of Burgundy, the craftsmen dispersed, and the industry spread to other towns along the Meuse and to Brussels, Bruges, and Tournai, eventually establishing a new production centre in Aachen.
Some of the fleeing “brass-beaters” went as far as Nürnberg, which was already becoming famous for its metalworking and was soon to achieve the prominence of the old centres.
In the late 15th and 16th centuries the “basin-beaters” of Nürnberg produced numerous embossed dishes and basins of a characteristic type, which were exported to most parts of Europe.
These objects have also come to be known as "dinanderie".
The earliest type of dinanderie, Gothic in nature, is generally small and deep and made of a golden-coloured brass.
Pieces from the 16th century and later are flatter, larger, and of a darker colour.
The embossed decoration, executed with large stamps, falls into two major categories - religious and allegorical subjects and stylized decorative patterns.
Additional ornament was provided by punched bands of simple motifs repeated around the rim and encircling the main subject in the centre of the bowl.
Many have a raised central boss in the form of an open rose with radiating petals, and some bear inscriptions in Gothic lettering or pseudo-Gothic-Islāmic script. They are quite often found in churches, where they have been used as alms dishes.
The Stamp:
The Postage Stamp of 1.65 Euro issued by La Poste, France.
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