Gilding Sentence Examples

Gilding and enamel decoration are applied to vessels when cold, and fixed by heat.

A similar series of works was projected and begun about the same time as that of Le Vaillant by Audebert and Vieillot, though the former, who was by profession a painter and illustrated the work, was already dead more than a year before the appearance of the two volumes, bearing date 2802, and entitled Oiseaux dores ou a reflets metalliques, the effect of the plates in which he sought to heighten by the lavish use of gilding.

Don Sigismundo Brun is credited with the invention of permanent gilding fixed by heat.

Tin amalgam is used for "silvering" mirrors, gold and silver amalgam in gilding and silvering, cadmium and copper amalgam in dentistry, and an amalgam of zinc and tin for the rubbers of electrical machines; the zinc plates of electric batteries are amalgamated in order to reduce polarization.

It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

With regard to the history of the metallurgy of gold, it may be mentioned that, according to Pliny, mercury was employed in his time both as a means of separating the precious metals and for the purposes of gilding.

The best instruments are now constructed for revenue purposes of silver, heavily gilded, because it was found that saccharic acid contained in some spirits attacked brass behind the gilding.

One of its rooms, called the "Golden Hall," from the profusion of its gilding, is 113 ft.

The open work was filled up with whitewash, the painting and gilding effaced, the furniture soiled, torn or removed.

The brilliancy and fair light scale of his tints is constantly remarkable, combined with a free use of gilding; this conduces materially to that celestial character which so pre-eminently distinguishes his pictured visions of the divine persons, the hierarchy of heaven and the glory of the redeemed.

These were worked by casting and hammering, and ornamented by inlay, gilding and enamels with the greatest possible skill.

Gilding, stains and lacquers, electro-plating, chasing, "matting," frosting, burnishing, mechanically produced mouldings and enrichments, and the other processes esteemed in the 10th century, are disused and avoided.

He describes the temple as one of great splendour and covered with gilding.

Armenian bole is also used in medicine as an astringent, and as a base for gilding on wooden panel paintings.

Interior features include gilding, painted ceilings and red and green velvet walls.

This is true even for English ones; for example English mantel clocks from the mid-19th century may have significant gilding.

The carving, gilding and decoration are still in good state of preservation.

The damaged floral decoration was re-touched by hand and the damaged gilding was replaced with 22 carat gold leaf.

The original surface underneath was in beautiful condition, a rich tawny peach color with a fair amount of original gilding evident.

Fancy stippled cloth hard cover and spine is engraved and has gold gilding and engraved contrasting black decorations.

The wonderful luster imparted by candlelight to the rich mercury gilding has inspired the name " The Candlelight patterns " .

Brass mounts and handles should not be polished with metal cleaners which can harm the wood around them and remove any water gilding.

The fragments showed loose pieces of later gesso and oil gilding, with original paint attached to the underside.

Painted in enamels, with dentil gilding around the rim and a gold band around the base.

The interior of the cup is lined with mercury gilding.

This chest has been lacquered black and retains traces of the original gold leaf gilding.

Gilding can be done either professionally by electrolysis or using gold leaf.

The early practice of writing the initial lines or even the entire text of a volume in gold or coloured inks, and of staining with purple and of gilding the vellum, while it undoubtedly enhanced the decorative aspect, does not properly fall within the scope of this article; it concerns the material rather than the artistic element of the MS. (See Manuscripts, Palaeography.) It will be seen, then, that in the earliest examples of book decorations we find the germs of the two lines on which that decoration was destined to develop in the illuminated MSS.

Decorated with Polychrome floral swags suspended from gold loops, together with dentil gilding.

The Rococo styles made popular by Louis XV focus on curves and ornate details like gilding and carved designs.

Gilding fruit can be done a couple of days in advance and letting your friends assist you will make the task go by much quicker.

To make the fruit more suitable at a formal wedding, consider gilding it with edible gold leaf and placing the fruit on a crystal cake stand.

They were not permitted any fancy decoration such as gilding with precious metals or jewels which were popular with secular knights of the Middle Ages.

Fina from his plans in 1468, and carved the fine marble altar, the original painting and gilding of which are still preserved.

Ambones were made of wood or else of costly marbles, and were decorated with mosaics, reliefs, gilding, &c.; sometimes also covered with canopies supported on columns.

Important features of Greek sacrifice, though not necessarily found in every rite, were the putting of wreaths and pieces of wool on the victim, the gilding of its horns, the lustration of the officiant and the sprinkling of those present with holy water.

Thus, in the treatise known as Physica et Mystica and falsely ascribed to Democritus (such false attributions are a constant feature of the literature of alchemy), various receipts are given for colouring and gilding metals, but the conception of transmutation does not occur.

Edward Dillon (Glass, 1902) has very properly laid stress on the importance of the enamelled Saracenic glass of the r3th, 14th and r 5th centuries, pointing out that, whereas the Romans and Byzantine Greeks made some crude and ineffectual experiments in enamelling, it was under Saracenic influence that the processes of enamelling and gilding on glass vessels were perfected.

Enamel and gilding were freely used, in imitation no doubt of the muchadmired vessels brought from Damascus.

The pillars, architraves, ceilings, panels, and almost every available part of the structure, are covered with arabesques and sculptured figures of dragons, lions, tigers, birds, flowers, and even pictorial compositions with landscapes and figures, deeply carved in solid or open workthe wood sometimes plain, sometimes overlaid with pigment and gilding, as in the panelled ceiling of the chapel of Iyeyasu in Tokyo.

Salmon-colored, red, yellow and white glazes are also found, and in late specimens gilding was added.

The interior, which is as rich as coloured marbles, gilding, and sculptures can make it, contains the busts of more than a hundred German worthies.

The interior is covered with gilding and frescoes of the 17th century, and is somewhat overloaded with rich decoration, while a range of white marble columns supports the nave.

There are numerous sculptural adornments without, and there is elaborate interior decoration with paintings, sculpture, coloured marbles and gilding.'