The Latin phrase below the crest is 'Flos Florum Eques Equitum' translating to 'Rose of Roses, Knight of Knights'.
Originally created for a gentleman, it epitomises Victorian masculinity. With a rose Gules at the centre of the intricate crest, denoting distinction, and crown atop the crest, symbolising victory and sovereignty, this signet ring encapsulates Victorian pride. The Bruc crest is engraved into the bloodstone, making this a rare perfect gift for your partner or loved one.
Though the text was still printed on a flat-bed press, copper engravings required an intaglio press, meaning a separate procedure.įour Centuries of Love and Suffering for the WordThis sensational antique 18ct Gold Bloodstone Intaglio signet ring is an amazing piece of French history. The flash page is intaglio printed if you can believe that.
Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have borrowed a technique from such " intaglio" printing to create snapshots describing the behavior of immune cell populations at a moment in time. Greyson's artistic instincts were keenly alive to the exquisite delicacy of its workmanship. The intaglio was a dark sard beautifully cut with the head of Minerva, and Mrs. Most of the countries in the world, the United States among them, print their currency using so-called intaglio presses, in which the design is cut into the printing plate, the ink fills the incisions, and the press comes down with enormous pressure, some 50 tons on every square centimeter of paper. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
noun a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the printĮtching, as well as engraving, falls under the umbrella term intaglio, in which a picture is carved onto a surface and the grooved areas hold the ink.Ģ1 The Eastern ring is rarely plain and, its use being that of a signet, it is always in intaglio: the Egyptians invented engraving hieroglyphics on wooden stamps for marking bricks and applied the process to the ring. noun glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo). noun Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. noun A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something. Also used adjectively.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun A cutting or engraving a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc. noun Hence A figure or work so produced an incised representation or design.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun Incised engraving as opposed to carving in relief ornamentation by lines, patterns, figures, etc., sunk or hollowed below the surface. To incise engrave with a sunk pattern or design. noun A die incised so as to produce a design in relief. noun Printing done with a plate bearing an image in intaglio. noun The art or process of carving a design in this manner. noun A figure or design carved into or beneath the surface of hard metal or stone. From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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