posted on September 6, 2001 11:57:39 AM
Any art experts here? Or do you know of any?
I've had these metal "plaques" I've been toting around for about 14 years now. Got them while I was living in Europe. I was told they originated in the Vienna area, possibly as wall or door plaques....but I have no proof of that. They are each approximately 18" wide x 12" tall. They are heavy, at least 5 lbs each and appear to be made of copper (not sure about that but that is the color--like an old penny). I have not removed the handcrafted frames from them to look at the back of the metal as of yet, but I don't think the frames are original to the metal, although the lower curves of the frames follow the curves of the sculpture design on the bottom.
Every time I think I'm going to search the web and try to find out what these are and any information I might find on them, I stall out when trying to describe how they were created. I don't think they are hammered, maybe poured or repposee(sp).
So if you have any idea of how to describe them, or know someone who might know more about these, I'd appreciate some help here. TIA!
I'll attach pics of them to the next post in this thread (don't want to overwhelm you kb-wise all in one post.)
[url]http://www.geocities.com/foubers_fence/images/chey1.JPG[<B>/</B>url]
[url]http://www.geocities.com/foubers_fence/images/chey2.JPG[<B>/</B>url]
posted on September 6, 2001 02:04:12 PM
I know why the pictures won't display.... Geocities doesn't allow hot links.... (a good reason not to use them on ebay.)
posted on September 6, 2001 02:15:06 PMWe had them up and showing, now there gone again
They are coming out of your cache. You obviously went and looked directly at them (cut and pasted into your browser), and then they "show" when you come back to AW.
posted on September 6, 2001 02:22:43 PM
If you want to search I believe these would
be called repoissé work. There are two ways to do it. Hammer the soft metal into a hard die with the pattern cut in the face or put the soft metal plate on top of something soft like leather/pitch or lead and do the design free hand with stamps and hammer.
posted on September 6, 2001 02:58:49 PM
My guess is that they are first stamped on a die, then hand finished. There seems to be some hand coloring (maybe enameling)on them. My experience is that these frequently began life as part of a fire screen or porcelain stove. They are beautiful. Dale
[ edited by shoshanah on Sep 6, 2001 02:16 PM ]