Note 10 — NOTES ON EARLY ITALIAN GESSO WORK
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: Cennino describes a method of cutting stamps in stone (Chapter 170) to be used as moulds for figures to be applied to the decoration of chests or coffers, but he speaks of beating tin into these moulds and forming the figures in this way, afterwards backing them or filling them in with gesso grosso, cutting them out and sticking them on the chest with glue, gilding them and adding colour and varnish.