Manufactured of brass or bronze, and sometimes even of silver, they had decorative designs repousse or chiselled, and sometimes they took the shape of a metal receptacle inserted in a case of finely grained or richly lacquered wood.
The fine case shows the quality of the chased and repousse open-work design.
Behind the left-hand figure is an ornament resembling the spreading tail of an eagle which, with its feather arrangement and the detail of their mechanism, correspond to a high degree with the eagle effigies in repoussecopper (fig.
Marston Grove excelled in clay-modelling and repousse brasswork, while Newington Green had produced very excellent results in carpentry, basket-weaving, and bookbinding.
The repousse work, designed in the best Italian taste of the sixteenth century, is enhanced by gold damascening on backgrounds gilt and inlaid with silver.
A much rarer enamel is found on beaten or repousse bronze armour.
The horse armour matching the suit, which was to be used on foot, as Lord Dillon points out, did not exist at this period, and the figure was seated on the Burgundian horse armour of repousse steel of the time of Henry VII.
The repousse work is of most exquisite finish and the gold damascening of extraordinary delicacy.
It is of gold plate, so thick as to require no "piping" at the back to sustain it; but in general the repousse examples have a piping of copper wire.
Medallion ornament with repousse head of Dionysos and filigree work.
It is formed of two pieces joined by a hinge, and is decorated with figures in repousseon a ground inlaid with lapis lazuli.
Grasshoppers or tree crickets in gold repousse suspended by chains and probably used for the decoration of the hair, and a griffin (fig.
Plate with repousse ornament for sewing on a dress.
Small gold reel with repousse figures of Nereid with helmet of Achilles, and Eros.
The tin frame for a lithograph of St. Peter reveals repousse designs found on east morada frames (Figure 30, center).
The whole of the ornamentation is in repousse work, and is probably intended to be attached to leather.
Two of the bands of interlaced strap-work are of thin repousse work, and nailed on with bronze nails.
Circular brass box, ornamented on the top with a central figure in repousse work, holding two crocodiles upright in each hand.
Ornamented with dots of repousse work, and suspended by an iron chain with long links and a hook.
Round the base is a band of peculiar ornament in repousse work, which is either intended for a floral ornament or a broken guilloche pattern, like that on the blades of the wands and elsewhere.
Along the forehead and along the sides are three lines of single guilloche pattern in repousse work.
It is a large jar, about two and one half feet in height, decorated below with horizontal flutings and above with continuous spirals in repousse (i.
The designs in repousse work are evidently pendants to one another.
Some metal curios were included in the trophies brought to this country at the time of the Ashanti Expedition, among the rare regal metal-work being an old brass vase, with repousse decorations and a copper dragon handle.
Most of the objects are strictly utilitarian, and the ornament stiff and formal; they were hammered by hand, an effective finish being made by small punches, repoussework being occasionally added.
From north-east Central Africa we get a little metal-work, some of the head-dress ornaments being enriched with circular brass plates, on which are repousse decorations.
In the production of such work the repousse enrichments are wrought by hand, the anvil still holding sway in the modern coppersmith's shop.
Their work includes copper and brass on which is very beautifulrepousse decoration.
Many of the old flasks were exceedingly ornate, and were often ornamented with hunting scenes worked up in repousse on the copper sides.
Peter meanwhile was looking at the snuffbox, which the priest still held in his hand, and admiring its brave repousse work of leaves and flowers, and the escutcheon engraved on the lid.
After the design for the decoration of the front of the frame has been transferred to the same side of the metal as the outline, it must be prepared for the repousse process.
Repousse or embossing involves practically the same principle as modeling in clay or wax, the only difference being that metal is used as the material and that different tools are employed.
If the design calls for any repousse work, it is done as described on page 64.
The frame here illustrated and the plate of designs were intended for repousse as more satisfactory results have been obtained by this process.
After the repousse part of the frame is done, clean it with kerosene and pickle.
Pitch block: Some iron blocks and wood blocks covered with pitch used as a support for metal inrepousse work or chasing.
Nothing is more decorative though, than the embossed or repousse design, made by beating from the back and raising the metal on the face above the level.
Repousse by hammering, another method most appropriate to the material, was more used in France than with us, where casting has been throughout the chief means for obtaining relief decoration.
In these finials applied castings were also used, and at the end of the fifteenth century they superseded repousse for a time.
Later, cast ornaments became general; on the Hotel Dieu at Beaune is a wonderful series of these finials made up of portions partly repousse partly cast, these have coronets of delicate open work which were cast in strips and bent round.
The figures formed by repousse usually serve as finials on the roof, or stand in niches of the fleche.
Red leather with repousse design, probably the work of the 7th or 8th century.
Stonyhurst there is a book known as St Cuthbert's Gospels, which is bound in red leather with a repousse design upon it, and is probably the work of the 7th or 8th century (Plate, fig.
That therepousse work was not beyond the skill of the Indian was shown by Cushing in his study of "Primitive Copper Working" (Amer.
In its support stress has been laid upon the nature of some of the copper implements and ornaments, particularly the types of elaborate repousse work from Etowah, Georgia, &c.
Strange to say, the reins of the chariot horses on these gate-sheaths are sometimes raised in relief by the repousse method, sometimes on the other hand they are incised.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repousse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
