2-756-586 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Indian metal work, (1898). 'Fig 1: Tin-vessel with damascened ornaments. Fig 2: Battle-axe with etched decorations. Fig 3: Battle-axe with damascene work. Fig 4: Shield of rhinoceros-skin inlaid and mounted with metal. Figs 5-8: Ornaments from damascened Huhkas (water-pipes). Fig 9: Belly-decoration, executed "en repoussé", of a gilt copper-can. Fig 10: Belly-decoration from a copper-can in repoussé work. Fig 11: Decoration from a damascened tin-vase. Fig 12: Damascene work on steel on a dagger-sheath. Fig 13: Neck-decoration on a damascened tin-cup. Fig 14: From a copper-plate in repoussé work. Fig 15: From a tin-plate in repoussé work. Figs 2, 9, 10, 12-15 drawn after original objects from the Royal "Landesgewerbemuseum" at Stuttgart. Figs 1, 5-8 and 11 drawn after original objects belonging to Mr. Paul Stotz, manufacturer at Stuttgart...The manufacture of decorated arms and metal ware was...an important branch of the Indian industrial art, and we have due cause to be astonished at the refinement of taste combined with the highest magnificence of ornamentation. Damascene work...is executed in steel, iron or tin-alloy...The damascened ornaments are made in silver-and gold-foil, fixed on either by pressure or hammering to the metal ground, which has previously been slightly engraved, after which the whole is polished with the burnisher'. Plate 15 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]