The pewter collector : a guide to English pewter with some reference to foreign work (1921)
Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph), b. 1860 · London : Herbert Jenkins · leaf 110
with gold. The effect, combined with that of thegilt incised work on the cruets, is not happy. In theMuseum at Nuremberg is a crucifix made of wood overlaidwith pewter. The latter has been mercurially gilt. Silvering has also been applied to pewter in moderntimes, though manufacturers do not… … ORNAMENTATION OF PEWTER 89 restored, is thickly plated with silver. Some of the existingalms-dishes of pewter have also been treated in the sameway. T he painting and gilding of tin or pewter was in Englandalways very stringently forbidden. Mr. Welch (ii. 80)mentions some smallest paynted beakers…
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