Metalwork is the shaping of metal, including gold, silver, bronze and iron, into objects of adornment, religious artifacts and trade instruments through techniques such as forging, casting, engraving and repousse and chasing. The oldest archaeological evidence of copper working is a copper pendant from northern Iraq dated to about 8,700 BCE.
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MediumGold, silver, bronze, iron and other metals, shaped by forging, casting, engraving, repousse and chasing 1 Signature TechniqueTechniques including lost-wax casting, forging and granulation, the last occurring independently in numerous ancient cultures before any historical record of contact between them. 1 Place of OriginThe ancient Near East; the oldest archaeological evidence of copper mining and working is a copper pendant from northern Iraq dated to 8,700 BCE. 1 Notable ExampleThe Benin Bronzes, a celebrated corpus of West African metal sculptures and plaques made using lost-wax casting. 1 Metalwork
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cloisonne is a technique of the metalwork art form.
damascening is a technique of the metalwork art form.
filigree is a technique of the metalwork art form.
niello is a technique of the metalwork art form.
repousse is a technique of the metalwork art form.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement revived hand-worked metalwork through guilds such as C. R. Ashbee's Guild and School of Handicraft.
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Works In This Form
Insular silver and gilt-bronze chalice.
Cast brass and bronze plaques and sculptures from the Kingdom of Benin.
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Nordic Bronze Age cast-bronze cult object.
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Wikimedia FoundationMetalworking, History section, Sheet (and tube) forming processes section and Prehistory section
By the above periods metalworkers were very skilled at creating objects of adornment, religious artifacts, and trade instruments of precious metals...Repousse and chasing...The oldest archaeological evidence of copper mining and working was the discovery of a copper pendant in northern Iraq from 8,700 BCE.
Metalworking, Sheet (and tube) forming processes section
Repousse and chasing
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Metalworking, Prehistory section, copper pendant
The oldest archaeological evidence of copper mining and working was the discovery of a copper pendant in northern Iraq from 8,700 BCE.
Metalworking, History section, granulation
Sophisticated techniques were practiced by artisans, blacksmiths, atharvavedic practitioners, alchemists, and other categories of metalworkers around the globe. For example, the granulation technique occurs in numerous ancient cultures before the historic record shows people traveled to far regions to share this process.
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Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals in order to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures.
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The metal pieces were made using lost-wax casting and are considered among the best African sculptures made using this technique.
Arts and Crafts movement (Wikipedia)
Movements: Arts and Crafts Movement, Arts and Crafts movement article, Guild of Handicraft (C. R. Ashbee) sectionQuote, Movements: Arts and Crafts Movement, Arts and Crafts movement article, Guild of Handicraft (C. R. Ashbee) section
The guild's work is characterised by plain surfaces of hammered silver, flowing wirework and coloured stones in simple settings.
Sutton Hoo helmet (Wikipedia)
Gundestrup cauldron (Wikipedia)
Baccio Baldini (Wikipedia)
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1436, buried 12 December 1487) was an Italian goldsmith and engraver of the Renaissance, active in his native Florence.
Peter Carl Faberge (Wikipedia)
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was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller
Wikipedia: Georg Jensen
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was a Danish silversmith and founder of Georg Jensen A/S (also known as Georg Jensen Sølvsmedie)
Wikipedia: Antonio del Pollaiuolo
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was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engraver, and goldsmith
Wikipedia: Vecchietta
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was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance
Champlevé (Wikipedia)
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Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel.
Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wagenfeld
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He designed glass and metal works
Wikipedia: Archibald Knox
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included silverware and pewterware, jewellery, inkwells, boxes, gravestones
Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Sebastian Dadler (German goldsmith and medalist, 1586-1657)
Practitioners: Sebastian Dadler, Record headingQuote, Practitioners: Sebastian Dadler, Record heading
Dadler, Sebastian (German goldsmith and medalist, 1586-1657)
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