11-05-2011, 02:09 AM
The part I find most interesting is the mention of a filler substance found between the silver sheet decoration and it's cheek piece, this indicates that support has been given to the repousse decoration.
This is the kind of thing I have done so often myself when having made this kind of work in the past, where a dictionary definition of repousse will say it is decoration hammered out from the reverse of metal, it should also be mentioned that with fine decoration such as thin sheet it is also created by hand rubbing this is where very skilled artistic work comes into armour making.
This is the kind of thing I have done so often myself when having made this kind of work in the past, where a dictionary definition of repousse will say it is decoration hammered out from the reverse of metal, it should also be mentioned that with fine decoration such as thin sheet it is also created by hand rubbing this is where very skilled artistic work comes into armour making.
Brian Stobbs
