Silver and metal

Working in metal: chasing, niello, filigree, gilding, enamels and the hallmarks used to read a piece.

Terms in total: 26

Painting 51 What a picture is made of: paints and grounds, ways of laying a stroke, and work with light, colour and layers.Styles and movements 49 The great manners and epochs — from gothic and baroque to cubism and minimalism — and how to recognise them in an object.Genres 22 What a work is about: portrait, landscape, still life, battle scene and other established kinds of subject.Porcelain and ceramics 38 What porcelain, faience and ceramics are made of and decorated with: bodies, glazes, painting and factory marks.Silver and metal 26 Working in metal: chasing, niello, filigree, gilding, enamels and the hallmarks used to read a piece.Sculpture and relief 10 Volume in art: reliefs, cabinet pieces, casting, carving and the poses a figure is built on.Graphic arts and printing 14 Drawing and the printed sheet: engraving, etching, lithography, screen printing and other ways to pull an impression.Decorative and applied arts 35 The beauty of objects: glass and stained glass, mosaic, textile, wood, ornament, lacquer and gilding.Market and collecting 10 How art is sold and collected: the auction, the estimate, the provenance, repetitions and exhibitions.Other 2 Terms that do not reduce to a single technique: perception, light, and the artist working on the viewer’s senses.

Amalgam Amalgam is a metal alloy, most often mercury with silver or gold, which was used to coat the surface of object Openwork Silver Carving Openwork silver carving is an exquisite technique in which the finest patterns are cut from metal, creating th Vermeil Silver gilding technique Georgian Silver Style of silver items in Great Britain from the 18th to the early 19th century Guilloché Guilloché is a technique of extremely fine mechanical engraving on metal, most often on silver, which creates Cabinet Silver A distinct type of table and decorative silver Cloisonné Enamel decoration technique using metal partitions Silver Hallmarking A method of identifying and attributing silver items Mokume-gane Mokume-gane is a Japanese decorative forging technique where layers of different metals are combined, creating Silver Matting A special type of silver finish with a velvet-like, non-reflective surface Patination A technique for artificially aging the surface of silver items Patinа The natural patina of time on works of art and antiques Puncheon Tool for creating relief in metal and silver Puncheoner Specialist in processing silver or other metal items by means of punching Silver fineness Silver fineness is a hallmarking system used to determine the silver content in an item. It indicates the perc Repoussé Metalworking technique in decorative art Reticulation Feature of Formation of Network Cracks on Antique Silver Regency Silver Distinctive style of early 19th-century English silver Selective Gilding Technology for decorating silver items Snuffbox Small decorative box for storing tobacco, an object of decorative art Filigree (Scan) Fine technique of openwork wire pattern in artistic silver Cold enamel A technique for decorating items that imitates true enamel on metal or porcelain Chasing A technique for decorating silver items with relief ornament Niello Niello is an ancient technique that gives objects expressiveness and contrast. A special sulfurous mixture is Enamel A technique for decorating objects with colored glass coatings Enamel miniature Decorative technique of painting on metal with colored enamels