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The treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on goldsmithing and sculpture

Note 191 — Chapter XXXIII · WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU WISH TO LEAVE BARE THE SILVER IN CERTAIN PLACES.

C. R. (Charles Robert) Ashbee translation

Colla cervona. Probably a glue made of stags’ skins or chippings. In ‘Cennino Cennini’ is a footnote on glues, quoting from ‘Dioscorides’ a glue, colla taurina, hence possibly ‘cervona’ from ‘cervo.’

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