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- Repoussé (French: [ʁəpuse] ) or repoussage ([ʁəpusaʒ] ) is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse...
- CE. The so-called "Copper Solar Ogee Deity," a 21 inches (53 cm) high repoussé copper plate, depicts the profile of a dancing winged figure, wielding...
- Building in downtown Portland, Oregon. It is the second largest copper repoussé statue in the United States, after the Statue of Liberty. Portlandia was...
- Tiffany & Co. pitcher (c. 1871) having paneled sides and repoussé design with s****, scrolls and flowers; top edge is repousse arrowhead leaf design...
- Egypt, Bartholdi visited a 76-foot Giovanni Battista Crespi's sculpture in repoussé copper covering an iron armature at Lago Maggiore in Italy, and was familiar...
- surfaces to produce the jewellery, including soldering, plating and gilding, repoussé, chasing, inlay, enamelling, filigree and granulation, stamping, striking...
- Repoussé and engraved relief of Hercules (right), Eros (center) and Iolaus (left) on the Ficoroni cista.[citation needed] 4th century BC Etruscan ritual...
- especially in the Renaissance. Various modelling techniques are used, such repoussé ("pushed-back") in metalwork, where a thin metal plate is shaped from behind...
- Light Italian celata (sallet) c. 1460, covered with velvet and decorated with repoussé gilt copper edging and crest...
- A repoussé silver Chimú kero beaker from Peru that may have been used in drinking rituals with corn beer...