The blade has a single edge, and is exquisitely damascened in gold designs which cover more than half of all its surface.
This arm is richly damascened as well as decorated with the characteristic ataujia.
Cellini tells of his first view of damascened steel blades.
Spurs were also set with jewels, and often damascened with gold, and ornamented with appropriate mottoes.
Florentine locksmiths were specially famous; there also was a great fashion for damascened work in that city, and it was executed with much elegance.
The native princes of India have always been accustomed to State ceremonial, and among the curious objects from that country are symbols of office, some of the maces being beautifully damascened with gold.
The half-suit of armour of Italian workmanship made for Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, inlaid and damascened with gold and silver, is said to be the finest in Europe.
The peculiarity of these objects is that they are distinctly black and white, the metal consisting of an alloy of zinc, copper, and lead afterwards damascened with silver which is finally blackened by pickling.
There is an Indian ware known as bidri, beautifully damascened in gold on a brass and copper base, chiefly made in the villages round Lucknow and Deccan from the seventeenth century onwards.
The metal objects known as bidri are made of an alloy of copper-zinc and lead, damascened with silver, showing a peculiarly striking contrast in black and white.
About his waist was a peaked brace of shining plate armour, damascened in gold by Malise himself, and filling out his almost girlish waist to manlier proportions.
Lastly there was the dark sea, now lit up into a gleaming plain of gently heaving waves; all being shot as it were with purple, where again patches of rippled damascened silver flashed in the opening of a new day.
These rare examples of the English cutler's and ivory carver's art, dated 1607, have blades damascened with gold.
Those brought over from Central Asia were frequently decorated with dragons and the swastika symbol, in damascened work.
These are mostly of the third century, but Sambon reports some damascened handles of the first century.
So far no damascened instruments are reported from Greece.
The blade of these ancestral swords was sometimes damascened or adorned with wave-like patterns[769].
Odo stared a moment without understanding; then his grief burst from him in a great sob, and he hid himself against Filomena's apron, weeping for the father in damascened armour and scarlet cloak.
Others have damascened breastplates, the gold wire being inserted in undercut lines engraved in the steel, and incorporated therewith by hammering.
The other is a waved blade of splendid polish, its hilt heavily damascened with gold and its guard closely set with diamonds and rubies.
By an analagous process bronze was damascened with gold and silver, threads of these two metals being inserted in prepared grooves and hammered into place.
Mariette has called attention to several bronzes at Boulak thus inlaid with gold,[392] and in the Louvre there is a graceful little sphinx marked with the cartouche of Smendes, which is damascened with silver.
Several of these damascened blades have been found in the trenches of Alise.
Sword with Damascened Blade, found in one of the Swiss Lakes ib.
Sword with Damascened Blade, found in one of the Swiss Lakes.
In her right hand she held a singular poignard, the blade of which was damascened with gold, while the handle, made of bronze and exquisitely modelled, represented a tiny human skeleton.
Johnnie's three or four damascened daggers were rubbed bright with hog's lard and sand.
The blade was of finely tempered steel, and richly damascened with golden crosses and silver lilies--the emblems of Jeanne’s spiritual sponsors.
Gold and silver are of great worth in Russia," said Sadko, "but damascened steel is of great value also.
Which is now of greatest worth in Russia, gold or silver or damascened steel?
But it seems to me that either they are not at home or they have locked up their beauty very securely;" for the entrance to the pavilion was secured by a stout bar on which was a lock of damascened steel.
When he returned he was carrying his two pistols, their long steel barrels damascened with gold and the stocks fine walnut.
The barrel was damascened in gold, and the stock was fine Italian walnut inlaid with mother of pearl.
These were the arms of a dozen different nations, some carrying rusty, worthless old pistols, while others haddamascened blades of beautiful wavy forging and razor-like keenness, such as could not be bought for money.
The speaker was in the prime of life, and the damascened armour seen beneath a flimsy white muslin overcoat seemed to match his proud arrogance of bearing.
So once more as he sate holding his luck in his hands, holding it between him and the river-damascened shield of the wide Panjab plain, the Self that is behind Self found eyes and saw.
The water, rippling under an oblique beam of light, shines with the dull gleam of the quicksilvered side of a mirror, or like a damascened blade.
A globose example formed of three articulated plates is still more interesting, having been richly damascened with an arabesque design worked in thin brass lines, the field being delicately and closely cross-hatched with incised lines.
Between these are panels, alternately of emblems and ornament, and of arabesqued scrolls, damascened so minutely that the work is almost invisible until magnified.
The hilt entirely covered with raised gold damascened work on blue steel matrix; except the grip of silver wire work.
Among this the most exquisitely beautiful is the damascened work, scattered over Europe, persistently though erroneously attributed to Cellini, of which, perhaps, one of the finest examples is the target at Windsor.
The hilt entirely covered with raised gold damascened work on blue steel matrix, except the grip of silver wire work.
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