A chalice, of silver, and copper gilt, with three busts of Niello work on the base L3 15s.
He was a native of Bologna, and was instructed in the art of working in niello by Francesco Francia, in which he acquired singular skill.
The knop has eight roundels with niello crosses crossleted; on the stem are saints in niello in vesicas.
On the foot are four medallions in niello amid arabesques.
A head reliquary has a fine pierced pattern and a punched border of early Renaissance character, with niello medallions of the Evangelists' symbols.
Upon the globe a pattern with beasts and leaves is chased; the foot is conical and sexfoil in plan, with little niello medallions and piercings on the perpendicular parts of two steps.
The ground between the ornaments has been cut down, probably for the insertion of niello or enamel colour.
Enamel was very seldom employed by the Anglo-Saxon jeweller, and enamel and niello could with difficulty be applied to the same object, on account of the different heat at which these two substances melt.
In the Niello work here mentioned there is a delineation of the Fall, in which the serpent has given to it a human head with a most sweet, crafty expression.
There is a magnificent Niellowork by an unknown Florentine artist, on which is a group of the Saviour in the lap of the Virgin.
The initials of its owner are inscribed in niello upon four circular compartments, separated by four lozenge-shaped compartments also inlaid with niello (Pl.
The designs of the silver brooches were produced by engraving accompanied by niello work; those of the brass brooches usually by engraving alone.
These engravings, known as Schwarzornamente or niello ornaments, are in the nature of silhouettes.
The majority of small niello designs engraved at this period were patterns for the shoulders of rings, intended to be executed in enamel by the champlevé process (Pl.
In his twenty-third year (1449) we find note of a sulphur cast from a niello of his workmanship being handed over by the painter Alessio Baldovinetti to a customer in payment or exchange for a dagger received.
There was in the baptistery at Florence (now in the Bargello) a beautiful 15th-century niello pax of the Coronation of the Virgin.
There are various accounts of how Finiguerra, who was a worker inniello in Florence, discovered by its means the art of steel engraving.
In the thirteenth century the taste ran rather to a chaster form of decoration; the large cabochons of the Romanesque, combined with a liquid gold surface, gave place to refined ornaments in niello and delicate enamels.
Niello work to engraving as a reproductive art, is seldom fully appreciated.
The Italian Niello work of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was chiefly applied to the embellishment of metal ornaments and utensils with elaborate engravings.
The transition from that niello-work to modern engraving is one of no real moment: my object is to make you understand the qualities which constitute the merit of the engraving, whether charged with niello or ink.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niello" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
