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Definition of Niello
1. n. A metallic alloy of a deep black color.
2. n. An impression on paper taken from the engraved or incised surface before the niello alloy has been inlaid.
Definition of Niello
1. Noun. Any of various black metal alloys, made of sulphur with copper, silver or lead, used to create decorative designs on other metals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Niello
1. a black metallic substance [n -LI or -LOS] / to decorate with niello [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Niello
Literary usage of Niello
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In some cases it is very difficult to distinguish niello from black enamel; ...
Our knowledge of the process and materials employed in niello-work is ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In some cases it is very difficult to distinguish niello from black enamel ...
Our knowledge of the process and materials employed in niello-work js derived ..."
3. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"For a list of his imitators, see Spooner's Dictionary of Painters, Engravers,
Sculptors, and Architects, table of Imitators. WORKS m niello. ..."
4. Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design by Giorgio Vasari (1907)
"niello Work. niello, which may be described as a design traced and painted on
silver, as one paints and traces delicately with the pen, was discovered by ..."
5. History of Painting by Alfred Woltmann, Karl Woermann, Sidney Colvin (1887)
"The niello itself ... Very possibly impressions may have been occasionally taken
from such patterns before the niello was filled in, to ascertain whether ..."
6. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1822)
"262 and 270, two accounts are given of the process used in the execution of the
ornamental work termed niello : the former, very short, and evidently ..."
7. An Inquiry Into the Origin and Early History of Engraving, Upon Copper and by William Young Ottley (1816)
"... V. Impressions from Works of niello of the ancient Italian Goldsmiths, in the
Durazzo Collection, described—Specimens of the same kind in the possession ..."
8. Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"niello. Among the arts formerly practised and now fallen into disuse, there is
perhaps none which has led to such important results as the ancient ..."
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