A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 130
grounds. Where the reliefs are in CUIK-BOUILLI U7 large masses or very high, they may sometimes have been roughlymodelled upon the inner leather in some kind of tilling glued tothe surface. Over this the upper leather in a soft state wouldthen be applied, and the grounds punched down: where the… … Fig. 83.—Cuir-bouilli case for a book, Italian, fifteenth century. side. This is a process which was in special favour with theItalian craftsmen of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, andsufficed for foliage or conventional designs. But for the humanfigure, which was reproduced with increasing…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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