r filtered and warm or only tepid, for fear of injuring
the surface of the ivory. Increasing the temperature also sometimes
deepens or changes the colour. The best temperature is 100 deg. Fahr.
When sufficiently stained the ivory is well rinsed in water, and if
there are two colours on top of each other always well rinsed before
going into the second bath. After thoroughly drying, repolish by
friction, first with a few drops of oil on a soft clean rag; continue
with a dry clean rag till the oil disappears.

An old Italian receipt for polishing wood blackened to imitate ebony
runs thus:--"Is the wood to be polished with burnt pumice stone? Rub the
work carefully with canvas and this powder, then wash the piece with
Dutch lime water so that it may be more beautifully polished. Then it is
to be cleaned with another cloth. Then the rind of a pomegranate must be
steeped, and the wood smeared over with it and set to dry, but in the
shade."

INDEX

A

Angelo di Lazzero, of Arezzo, 19

Anselmo de' Fornari, 77-78

Antique inlaid furniture, 2, 3, 6 (note)

Antonio da Melaria, 35

Antonio di Minella, of Siena, 10

Antonio Manetti, 19

Antonio Paolo Martini, 13

Assisi, 10, 46
---- Stalls of the Upper church of S. Francesco, 46

Arezzo, S. Agostino and S. Michele, 41

Augsburg work, 85, 90

B

Baccio Albini, 40

Baccio d'Agnolo, 42-43

Barck, Klaus, 88

Barili, Antonio, of Siena, 37, 38, 39
---- ---- Panel in K.K. Museum at Vienna, 37, 38
---- ---- description of Chapel of S. Giovanni, Siena, 39, 40, 41
---- Giovanni, 39

Bartolommeo Poli, surnamed dalla Polla, 35, 36

Beck, Sebald, 84

Belli, Giovanni and Alessandro, 73

Bencivieni da Mercatello da Massa, Antonio di, 46-51

Benedetto da Majano, Vasari's story of the reason of his giving up
working in tarsia, 20

Bergamo, Choir of S. Maria Maggiore, 79, 80
---- Tassi's account of, 80
---- Stalls in church of S. Stefano, 76

Bernardo di Tommaso di Ghigo, 19

Bernardino da Lendinara, 32

Brescia, Lectern from Rodengo in

Galleria Tosi, 64

Bologna, S. Domenico tarsie, by Fra Damiano, 70, 73, 75
---- Sabba Castiglione's account, 74, 75
---- Stalls in S. Giovanni in Monte, 66
---- S. Michele in Bosco, stalls now in S. Petronio, 65, 66
---- S. Petronio, 36

Boulle, Andre Charles, 96, 97
---- Works by him, 97, 98, 99

Boulle, Pierre, 75-96