Crossword-Solution: NIELLI 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Giovanni Elemosinario; a morse of the same period, with gems and nielli; a fifteenth-century pax of gilded brass; and several interesting and very early crosses, probably of the eighth or ninth century, some even earlier.

TRIFONE, CATTARO _To face page 383_] The treasury contains a good many rather uninteresting objects, such as arm and leg reliquaries of the fourteenth century, or later rather, decorated with nielli and bosses in relief, and a few others shaped like vases borne on stems; on some of them the date 1483 can be traced.

The design is more suspicious: in the Durazzo collection I have seen proofs of nielli with more coarse designs than are displayed in the works of Maso, but they are perhaps not the offspring of the Florentine school.

This room also possesses a small but extremely choice display of Italian, German, and Flemish drawings and engravings; together with a few _nielli_, (black engravings on silver plates.) The west side of the ground-floor is occupied by the ancient sculptures—Egyptian, Greek, Assyrian, Lycian, Roman, &c.—A refreshment-room for visitors was opened in 1866, and is situated in the western basement.

The Italian goldsmiths, who, before running their enamel (_nigellum_) into the ornamented and engraved gold, tried the effect of their work by staining paper or linen, and by the impressions (_nielli_) which the engraved surface when first washed with colouring matter would produce, no more anticipated the extraordinary development which their chance trials would receive, than could the early printers have prophesied the marvels of the modern printing-press.