Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 228
obtain thisresuit, the workman requires but an anvil and a hammer. By theproper use of thèse tools lie can cause a sheet of copper to return onitself and from a plane surface create a hollow body. liis first careis to make a flat. circular bottom for his vase, in order that it maystand fiim when it… … most natural shape, given by the method of fabrication, for such avase. To enable the vessel to be lifted conveniently, the workmanattaches handles to it by means of rivets ; but, as the vase requiies tobe inverted Avhen it is empty, that it may be dried, he so shapesthèse handles as not to àrise…
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