Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Inlay, koftgari, repousse, chasing and neillo

Battara · 16th March 2005, 11:03 PM

GuyM, without seeing the piece in hand, it would be hard to speculate if what you saw in Europe was koftgari or inlay. I would suspect it was inlay. Lots of inlay was done on European arms.

Yannis, you are right. Niello is used on silver.

16th March 2005, 11:03 PM	#33
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,272	GuyM, without seeing the piece in hand, it would be hard to speculate if what you saw in Europe was koftgari or inlay. I would suspect it was inlay. Lots of inlay was done on European arms. Yannis, you are right. Niello is used on silver.