Lowrelief decoration, normally modelled ingesso orwhite lead, applied to build up a surface that may then begilded or painted, or left plain.
2005, Malcolm Bull, “Objects”, inThe Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods, Oxford, Oxon:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page39:
But it was the white-leadpastiglia box that was closest to thecassone in both form and decoration.
Sassetta was his example, but Berenson actually missed the only element in that artist’s oeuvre that can lay claim to Asian influence: thepastiglia in the frame of the San Sepolcro altarpiece, in which the pattern of intertwined morning glories with the buds and leaves seen from different points of view is Chinese in origin (Fig. 4).
2021,Jean Michel Massing, “Prints and the Beginnings of Global Imagery”, in Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Magdalena Herman, editors,The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified (Routledge Research in Art History), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon:Routledge,→ISBN, part III (Images):
The set of prints also influenced manuscript and book illustrations, including borders of books of hours and frontispieces; also majolica dishes, such as two large dishes by Jacopo de Cafaggiolo, one of them dated 1514; Renaissance enamels; white leadpastiglia caskets; and bronze plaquettes.
