CHAPTER XVIII. HOW TO WORK IN LARGE WARE, IN GOLD AND SILVER AND SUCH

LIKE.[116]

First will I speak of the methods I learnt in Rome and then of those that are used in Paris. Indeed I believe this city of Paris to be the most wonderful city in the world, and there they practise every branch of every art. I spent four years of my life there in the service of the great King Francis, who gave me opportunities of working out not only in all the arts of which I have been telling you, but also in the art of sculpture, and of that too I shall speak in its proper place.

[Illustration: Diagram illustrating the process of casting silver C. CLAMPS P. PLATE B. BRICK]

FOOTNOTES:

[116] _Cellini applies the term ‘grosserie’ to all large ware of whatever process & as distinguished from ‘minuterie.’_