grille
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Metalwork involves creating useful and decorative objects from various metals like copper, iron, silver, gold, and bronze. Humans learned to extract metals from the earth and shape them into objects. Metalwork encompasses a wide range of items, including vessels, tools, sculptures, and personal ornaments.1
A grille is a grating that functions as a barrier or screen, often ornamental. It can also refer to an opening covered by such a grating or, less commonly, to metallic covers for teeth. In metalwork, grilles can be constructed from wrought iron, which is forged and can be hammered, twisted, or stretched. These grilles might feature interlaced rods or geometric shapes.234
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metalworkGermanyThe first iron grilles were imitations of French work, with C-scrolls filling spaces between vertical bars. Typical examples of door hinges prior to the 14th century were those at Kaisheim, St. Magnus Church, Brunswick, and St. Elizabeth’s Church, Marburg (the latter having a curious cross in the middle).…
Read MoreThe first iron grilles were imitations of French work, with C-scrolls filling spaces between vertical bars. Typical examples of door hinges prior to the 14th century were those at Kaisheim, St. Magnus Church, Brunswick, and St. Elizabeth’s Church, Marburg (the latter having a curious cross in the middle).…
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innovations; and (3) entire grilles, screens, and trellises made entirely of cast iron. No other city in the U.S. has two- and even three-story iron porches and balconies that can compare with those of New Orleans. Some of these lacy structures, such as those on St. Peter Street, were…
Read Moreinnovations; and (3) entire grilles, screens, and trellises made entirely of cast iron. No other city in the U.S. has two- and even three-story iron porches and balconies that can compare with those of New Orleans. Some of these lacy structures, such as those on St. Peter Street, were…
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