Chasing.

Chasing. Metal casting and other raised metal-work, whether stamped or repoussé—i.e. hammered or punched up—may be defective in sharpness, or detail, or finish. When such defect is remedied by hand-cutting, as with a chisel or graver, such finishing is called chasing, but this term is not properly applied to the raising of the figures themselves. The backs of watches are sometimes elaborately chased in floral or other designs. When similar work is applied to flat surfaces, such as salvers for example, it is called either chasing or engraving. It was called cælatura by the Romans; in modern Italian, eesclatura; in French, eislure; in German, eiselirung—i.e. 'chiselling' in each case.