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 F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910, author · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 187
WHERE TO STOP. restricted relief of repousse ornament in metal. Ornament beaten up from the back or put on liquid with a brush, is with difficulty to be made so bold in relief or so detached from its ground as to appear like an excrescence upon it. The apotheosis of ^' slip painting" is the process… … 142. "PRUNTS" SOFTENED IN THE FIRE.
Decoration and ornament
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