Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 224
ioned by Sir Digby Wyatt (in WaringsArt Treasures, 1857), is described as consisting in punching littleholes round the outline of the surface to be covered, and burnish-ing down the silver till it is forced into the holes and thus held ;but I cannot recall any example of this process among the… … FIG. 74.—TABLE FROM THE MARISTAN OF KALAUN. Thirteenth Century. {Cairo Museum.) 188 ART OF THE SARACENS. the edges had been under-cut, and the silver plates burnishedinto the recesses thus prepared, the work of the Mosil artist wasonly half done. He had next to chase the surface of eachplate with…
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