Word: niello
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...beginning, it was linked to (and may have come from) niello-work, a decorative technique used by goldsmiths and armorers since the Middle Ages. With his sharp cutting and scratching points, his burin and needle and burnisher, the artist scribed a design on a metal plate and filled its grooves with a black pigment which, when heated, solidified like enamel...
Tourists behaved as tourists should, trekked dutifully to the Floating Market and the Cobra Farms, gawked earnestly at the gleaming Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace temple. Bangkok's shops were bulging with niello silverware, hand-woven silks, carved teak heads and snakeskin bags. What was more, the prices were low. For lunch the visitors ate cold prawns in the air-conditioned Chez Eve,* while an Indonesian quartet imported from Singapore played Slow Boat to China...
...imbedded face down in one of the towers. It had served as the lower shelf of an embrasure, having been carried off for building material upon the demolition of its original home, the Church of the Barefooted Augustinians. Engraved upon the slab, in the manner of the niello technique, is the standing figure, somewhat larger than life size, of a medieval nobleman. The figure is remarkable for its freedom, gracefulness, and sweep of outline...
Recent additions to the print collections comprise an original impression from a Florentine niello plate, the print of the Ravisher by Durer, and nine plates of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state, including the following subjects: Jason, Hindoo Worshiper, Lauffenbourgh, Crypt of Kirkstall Abbey, Hedging and Ditching, River Wye, Solitude, Glaucus and Scylla, and Sheep Washing...
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