Bossing
Portrait of the porcelain bossier Adam Clair (1763–1829), 1776–1799 active at the Frankenthal manufactory ; around 1800
Meyer's Konversationslexikon from 1888 writes about bossing:
- Bossieren (also bosselieren, bosseln, v. French. Bosse, "hump, round increase") to give any convenient or artistic form, the art of a soft material by working with simple tools. It is mainly used to represent models for sculpture , ceramics and metal casting , or to form objects (bosses, round bosses) that can be used directly as decoration or for other purposes. For example, you can use embossing wax, a mixture of wax with turpentine , tallow , tree oil, etc., or clay with an addition of glycerine . Round objects (free on all sides) are either made entirely of wax or have a core of wood; to semi-raised work contributes to the wax on a flat board or other substrate, and processed there with wood, iron or bony styluses (Bossiergriffeln, Bossierhölzern), ie rods, which pointed at their ends, round, blade-shaped, bent or sons twie are designed. Embossing in clay is done in the same way. The objects to be embossed stand on the swiveling embossing chair while the work is being carried out, so that the artist can turn the mass to be processed in all directions without leaving his place.
Under Bossieren is understood in other contexts also the production of plaster or wax figures. In the production of porcelain , the embosser assembles figures or raw porcelain objects from preformed or freely shaped individual parts.
Embossing is an old craft that was taught in the 19th century at various universities (e.g. University of Hanover or Technical University of Chemnitz ).
In the stone working is as bossieren the production of humpback blocks referred to a so-called bosses therefore, have a convex surface. Bosswork or rustication is masonry made of stone blocks , the front side of which is only roughly hewn ( embossed ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beatrix Freifrau von Wolff Metternich, Manfred Meinz : The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . A cultural history in the mirror of Fürstenberg porcelain. Ed .: Richard Borek Foundation and Foundation Nord / LB. tape 2 . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2004, ISBN 3-7913-2921-9 , pp. 503 .
