f gum-arabic has been dissolved,and brush over the work with it. When thisis dry, the work may be rubbed over with apiece of gold, silver, or copper, and will in ameasure assume their respective colours andbrilliancy. The work may be polished by aflint burnisher, but should not be varnished. Shell… … TART- ING points are of the greatest utilityto the designer, as it is only by their meansthat a continuity of ornament can be effected,or that, indeed, a sufficient sco])e can be ob-tained for the fertile fancy of the decorator.The starting points generallj^ adopted by theancient Egyptians, had for…
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