Figure 550

One aspect of chasing can involve enhancing detailed surface decoration. Here a V-shaped graver is used to remove metal in order to reinforce the lines of the lion’s mane cast through from the model, where they had been incised into the wax. Ubaldo Vitali (American, b. 1944), Reproduction of a Lion Aquamanile, Maplewood, New Jersey, 2006, H. 19 cm, after Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion, probably northern Germany, 12th century, H. 19.5 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, inv. 64.101.1491). See .