Producing Silver Sheet According to Cellini
During a short internship in The Hagues Municipal Museum, I noticed some blisters in a seventeenth century V.O.C.-dish. I thought they were gas bubbles which might have been introduced in the material during coagulation. When hammering to sheet the bubbles would take the shape of blisters which would turn visible during annealing. Why, however, were these shapes not visible on many other pieces? Had they not been annealed after completion or was this particular dish just a product of bad workmanship? I cannot imagine the possibility of keeping the metal free from gas bubbles during casting and... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | EXARC Journal, Iss 2012/3 (2012) |
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EXARC
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Schlagwörter: | silver / metallurgy / casting / late middle ages / the netherlands / Museums. Collectors and collecting / AM1-501 / Archaeology / CC1-960 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26804485 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/ec272743883e45508278327215129a0a |