Examples of household taste . Gold Bracelet: German Court. science, looking for aids and methods which could advance his art, and he madediscoveries in coloring gold and the application of electrotype and similarprocesses to the art of gilding that attracted much attention. About this timethe ancient cemeteries of Etruria yielded up the beautiful jewels that had beenburied for so many centuries, and Signor Castellani conceived the idea ofreproducing them with the greatest possible exactness. In the Regulini-Galassitomb were remarkable works in gold, which furnished the means of acquiringa more
Examples of household taste . Gold Bracelet: German Court. science, looking for aids and methods which could advance his art, and he madediscoveries in coloring gold and the application of electrotype and similarprocesses to the art of gilding that attracted much attention. About this timethe ancient cemeteries of Etruria yielded up the beautiful jewels that had beenburied for so many centuries, and Signor Castellani conceived the idea ofreproducing them with the greatest possible exactness. In the Regulini-Galassitomb were remarkable works in gold, which furnished the means of acquiringa more precise knowledge of the character of the early Etruscan jewelry, andfacilitated his researches into the methods used by the ancients in working us quote here Signor Castellanis own words:— 298 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Having determined to restore as well as possible, and, as we may expressit, to renew the ancient school of jewelry, our first step was to search after the. Monumental Brass: Singer &* Co., Frome, England. methods of fabrication employed in ancient times. We observed that all thejewels, except those intended for funeral ceremonies, instead of owing their raised INDUSTRIAL ART. 299 parts to chiseling or engraving, were formed by separate pieces brought togetherand placed one upon the other by means of solder or chemical processes. This
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