Chapter XVIII How to Work in Large Ware, in Gold and Silver and Such Like116
First will I speak of the methods I learnt in Rome and then of those that are used in Paris. Indeed I believe this city of Paris to be the most wonderful city in the world, and there they practise every branch of every art. I spent four years of my life there in the service of the great King Francis, who gave me opportunities of working out not only in all the arts of which I have been telling you, but also in the art of sculpture, and of that too I shall speak in its proper place.
Footnotes
116 Cellini applies the term ‘grosserie’ to all large ware of whatever process & as distinguished from ‘minuterie.’