pastiglia means low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or painted, or left plain. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- Low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or painted, or left plain.“But it was the white-lead pastiglia box that was closest to the cassone in both form and decoration.”