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described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, the metal below was traditionally silver in the West, to make silver-gilt (or vermeil) objects, but gilt-bronze is...

is known as "gilt bronze". Around 1830, legislation in France had outlawed the use of mercury for health reasons, though use continued to the 1900s.[citation...

work by hand: hand tools can easily punch, cut, enamel, repousse, engrave, gild, or etch it. It has a higher sheen than most brasses or copper, and does...

wife purchased a royal privilege, which allowed the Caffieri workshop to gild bronze as well as cast it within the same workshop; ordinarily the processes...

François Rémond (c. 1747 – 1812) was a French master metalworker and bronze gilder who achieved renown in his day, and whose work is still greatly valued....

gilder and maker of marquetry. Boulle received the post of Premier ébéniste du Roi. Boulle initially had aspirations to be a painter but according to...

that is easy to mold and gild. For this reason, it became the favorite material for clock cases, candelabra and furniture ornaments. Thanks to the skill...

metal base was usually just copper and if gold was used, it was generally to gild surrounding bare metal. In turn champlevé was replaced by the 14th or 15th...

malleability of gold and became the first goldbeaters and gilders. They pounded gold using a round stone to create the thinnest leaf possible. Except for the...

hieroglyph: Gold and mace (club) for "silver." Egyptian language nbi, for "gild", or "gilt." (Gold and Foot). Gold and was scepter-("uas scepter"), for "electrum"...

seventeenth-century French clock created out of ebony, turtle shell, brass, gilt bronze, and enamel. The clock case is decorated on all sides and was intended...

sprays added to cut-glass-hung gilt-bronze chandeliers under the direction of Parisian marchands-merciers, who alone were permitted to combine the production...

States, located at 16 Market Street. Its proprietor, John Doggett, was a gilder and framer with a retail shop near the gallery (nos.18 and 20 Market Street)...

for the carved boiseries of the interiors they were destined to occupy. Carvers and gilders worked directly for them. Ébénistes, who drew their name from...

Woollams & Co. They included embossing, gild and painted finishes designed to imitate leather wallpaper and were used to line furniture and cabinets. Their...

"counsel". However, there are also names dating from an early time which seem to be monothematic, consisting only of a single element. These are sometimes...

the sculptors, turners, repairers and packers. Finally, the painters, gilders and makers of animals and figures worked in the loft Jean-Claude Chambellan...

in British English, gotten in American, but see have got] gild – gilded/gilt – gilded/gilt give – gave – given go – went – gone [see also have been] grind...

enshrined in a copper container (or shrine), later embellished with sliver, gild-sliver and rock crystal additions in four phases ending in the 16th century...

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