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Basse-taille (baiss-taille) is an enamelling technique in which the artist creates a low-relief pattern in metal, usually silver or gold, by engraving or chasing. The entire pattern is created in such a way that its highest point is lower than the surrounding metal. A translucent enamel is then applied to the metal, allowing light to reflect from ...
Basse taille is a type of enamelling in which translucent enamel (powdered glass with colorants) is applied over a metal surface that has been textured by etching, engraving, stamping or chiselling by hand. This results in the metal background and the pattern over it being seen through the translucent enamel.
(French: `low-cut`), an enameling technique in which a metal surface, usually gold or silver, is engraved or carved in low relief and then covered ... [3 related articles]
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