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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 229

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French enamel upon bronze below shows a thicker wall ofmetal between the colours of the shield and the charge uponit, very obviously left in re-lief by digging out the cellsfor the vitreous pastes. Inthe German work opposite,in which the brassy surfaceof the metal is character-istically left to… … FROM PROCESS TO PROCESS. 193 outline to the drawing; but in cases where the colours maywith advantage blend one into the other there is no reasonwhy pastes of two or three different colours should not befilled into the same cell—and so the enameller proceedsa stage further, and gradates his colour…

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