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    Opus interrasile, lit. 'work shaved or scraped in-between' is a pierced openwork metalworking technique found from the 3rd century AD, and remaining popular...
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    not least to save on expensive materials and weight. For example, opus interrasile is a type of decoration used in Ancient Roman and Byzantine jewellery...
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    bowl showed a mercury-based solder. The large armlet of pierced gold (opus interrasile) showed traces of hematite on the reverse side, which probably would...
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    for example, the transom (ranma) may be done in sukashibori work. Opus interrasile Openwork Tokyo National Museum (1976). 和英対照日本美術鑑賞の手引(An Aid to the...
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    back cover is an image of the enthroned Pope Gregory the Great in Opus interrasile. The silk cover which was installed much later is now preserved only...
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