metal-chasing

Updated: July 26, 2025

Much of the work particularly perhaps in painting and metal-chasing was done by slaves. Apart from this consideration, the studios were so numerous and taught so well, that there must have been thousands of persons working either alone or co-operatively, whose position, however excellent the performance, became analogous to that of a house-decorator.

T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker - Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul