A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 108
MODELLING AND EMBOSSING is merely following his own preceding work as a modeller and goes through two technical processes instead of one. Fig. 23 shows an etui or case for scissors, bodkin, and the like, made of thin plates … Fig. 23. Etui, Repousse work moment. In the Middle in gold, French, eighteenth Ages an(J at a Jater t[me century it was not uncommon to carve in hard wood in low relief, and then to force very thin metal plates, as of silver, down upon this carving, the chasing tool or some equivalent being used to…
Art · Decorative arts
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