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The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture

Note 134 — Chapter XXII · HOW TO FASHION VESSELS OF GOLD AND SILVER, LIKEWISE FIGURES AND VASES, & ALL THAT PERTAINS TO THAT BRANCH OF THE CRAFT CALLED ‘GROSSERIA.’

C. R. (Charles Robert) Ashbee translation

Mr. Heywood Summer tells me that the tool here described is not used in modern sgraffito work; it would by the description, however, be something like the diagram here shown.

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Diagram illustrating the

rasoio

for paring metal

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