Judaica Sterling Silver Spice Tower, Mezuzah, and Wine Label
Three Judaica sterling silver items, comprising a spice tower of windmill form on a circular base, with wriggle work and lift-off cover, stamped 925 to the underside, a Mezuzah case with embossed with foliate motifs, stamped 925, and a wine label chased with grape-vine and scrolls border, with inscriptions and star of David, with chain attachment, stamped 'Sterling' to the reverse. Weight 93g height 3.74 in., (windmill)
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Embossed / Repousse - Embossing, also known as repousse, is the technique of decorating metal with raised designs, by pressing or beating out the design from the reverse side of the object.It is the opposite of chasing, where the decoration is applied from the front. An embossed or repoussed object may have chasing applied to finish off the design.
- Chasing - The method of decorating gold and silver objects using a punch and hammer so that the design appears in relief. Flat or surface chasing is done from the front giving the item definition, but not cutting into the metal.
Chasing is the opposite technique to repousse, but an object that has repousse work, may then have chasing applied to create a finished piece.
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