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| - Intaglio (Wedgwood handbook)
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| - Figures or lines cut into a substance, thus being the opposite to "cameo," which is substance laid on or elevated. A large portion of Wedgwood's intaglios were intended to serve the purpose of seals. He profusely copied the finest examples of antiquity, at first from Tassie's pastes, and afterwards from the gems themselves ; the contents of the choicest cabinets and collections in England and on the continent being placed at his disposal. By his labours in this direction of true art he hoped to check the barbaric taste for feudal ornament, but only partially succeeded. Almost all his intaglios as seals are in the basaltes body, or in a mixed body of blue and black, — these two colours beinfg in lamins. As seals, intaglios are highly polished. Choice specimens were often set in rings. Those
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| - Pottery and porcelain: Índice adicional
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| - Figures or lines cut into a substance, thus being the opposite to "cameo," which is substance laid on or elevated. A large portion of Wedgwood's intaglios were intended to serve the purpose of seals. He profusely copied the finest examples of antiquity, at first from Tassie's pastes, and afterwards from the gems themselves ; the contents of the choicest cabinets and collections in England and on the continent being placed at his disposal. By his labours in this direction of true art he hoped to check the barbaric taste for feudal ornament, but only partially succeeded. Almost all his intaglios as seals are in the basaltes body, or in a mixed body of blue and black, — these two colours beinfg in lamins. As seals, intaglios are highly polished. Choice specimens were often set in rings. Those of larger size were prepared and sold in sets for cabmets.
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