What does "niello" mean?
Niello: The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy.
Additional senses
- 2.A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated.
- 3.An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate. NIEPCE'S PROCESS Niep"ce's proc"ess. (Photog.) A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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