Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 239
jectsas arms, armour, and different kinds of vessels. The celebrated Italian metal-worker, Maso Finiguerra,worked extensively in niello, and to him is ascribed thediscovery of the art of engraving on copper and printingfrom the copper plate. He was a goldsmith and a nativeof Florence, and was the… … Fig. 191.—Italian Damascene Work; Sixteenth Century. finished his work he took a squeeze in clay of theengraving in order to judge of the progress he had made,and from this squeeze he made a mould in sulphur, andfilled it with a black pigment, and on pressing this sul-phur block on a sheet of damp…
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