. The arts in early England. ifficult to tell them from the beaten ones. Themounts of the drinking horn from Taplow, Pll. lx, i ; cxi, I(pp. 319, 461), are cast, but on the other hand the portionof the rim of a vessel in the Dover Museum, from the OldPark, Dover, is worked in repousse. This is figured in con-nection with its ornamentation, PL lxviii, i (p. 341), and itseems to be an example of free-hand embossing. The softforms produced by beating always differ from the sharp onesof metal cast and chased. On the other hand a good deal that passes muster asbeaten work is really effected by the
. The arts in early England. ifficult to tell them from the beaten ones. Themounts of the drinking horn from Taplow, Pll. lx, i ; cxi, I(pp. 319, 461), are cast, but on the other hand the portionof the rim of a vessel in the Dover Museum, from the OldPark, Dover, is worked in repousse. This is figured in con-nection with its ornamentation, PL lxviii, i (p. 341), and itseems to be an example of free-hand embossing. The softforms produced by beating always differ from the sharp onesof metal cast and chased. On the other hand a good deal that passes muster asbeaten work is really effected by the medium of stamps ormoulds. The Hungarian silver ornaments noticed in theIntroductory Chapter (p. 35) were beaten over previouslyformed positive moulds of hard metal. The DevizesMuseum x contains a pair of terra-cotta moulds positive andnegative between which Romano-British workmen pressedthin sheets of soft metal to the required shape. What was 1 Catalogue of the Dez-ixes Museum, Part 11, Devizes, 1911, plate xxn, no. S. LIV.
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