Metalwork

Visual works that are the product of working any kind of metal through a number of methods, such as forging while hot or chasing while cold.

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Metalwork

Visual works that are the product of working any kind of metal through a number of methods, such as forging while hot or chasing while cold.

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

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Ancient Colombian goldmaking

The Torah and its adornment

Wearable art in Byzantium

Medieval goldsmiths

Teresita Fernández on pre-Columbian gold

The Electrotyping Process

How was it made? Enameling a brooch

Coins of faith and power at the British Museum

Works of Art

Merovingian Looped Fibulae

6th century

Nicholas of Verdun, Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral

c. 1181–1220

Sasanian plate

4th century C.E.

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Punch Bowl with Three Ladles

1900

Teaching guide: Covered sugar bowl

c. 1745

Portraits of Alexander the Great

Roman copy c. 1–50 C.E.

Roman copy c. 20 B.C.E.–20 C.E.

Roman copy c. 2nd century C.E.

c. 325 B.C.E.

305–281 B.C.E.

Amazigh Kabyle brooches (fibulae)

late 19th–early 20th century

Handheld Prayer Wheel

early 20th century

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