Guilloché: A style of enameling in which a continuous decoration is engraved by an engine-turned lathe, and then covered with translucent enamel, so that the engraving can be seen through the enamel.
Guilloché enamel
A form of enamel work acheived by working the metal on an engine turned lathe to form a pattern and then enameling over the pattern ...
guilloché
Translucent enameling over an engraved design on the underlying metal.
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Guilloché enamel
Guilloche enamel pocket watch.
Guilloché (presumably named after French engineer Guillot) is a symmetrical pattern engraving technique which is produced by a mechanical engine-turning table.
Guilloché (n, a) Machine-turning technique for engraving a repetitive decorative pattern onto a metal surface - a popular watchmaking embellishment.
Elgin America Art Deco Guilloché Compact
Compass Ring: A ring that rotates and can be used for orienteering.
Composite Suite: An item of jewelry that can be disassembled into other items of jewelry.
It is used usually to emphasize the ground for a relief design, e.g. a border so made around a guilloché panel. It is sometimes called 'granulation' but has no relationship to the granulated gold of antiquity.
metal Green gold Gold which contains a high proportion of silver Gerlots Small long pendant beads Grey gold Gold which contains a high proportion of iron Grisaille A form of enamel painted in monochromatic colors Guilloché enamel ...
 See also: Jewel, Jewelry, Gold, Enamel, Silver
  
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