Into this outline he pours molten glass paste, which cools to form the decoration. The second way of working enamel is the casting, which is simpler than the first one. The craftsman forms depressions or cavities on the silver and fills them with enamel. A nother material that resembles to the enamel in appearance, though with a different texture is the savati or niello. The savati was widely used in all kinds of contemporary greek silver and gold ware and was worked in the same way as cast enamel.
Savatina jewellery is very common in Greece.
P recious or semiprecious stones, such as agates, cameos, corals, cornelians and others, were used for the additional embellishment of the goldsmith s creations and ordinary stones of coloured glass were employed even more frequently for this purpose. A nother form of decoration used in silver items is the gilding with either the entire object, or individual parts of it being gilded. T his category includes domestic silver ware and the jewellery worn to supplement male and particularly female costumes. T here are very few items of jewellery properly associated with the male costume. A large category of jewellery worn by both men and women are the so-called kioustekia.