He set his goblet on the table between them, fingers lingering to absently trace the gilding. |
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Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues. |
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And this dining room is the most elegantly pretty in London, a marvellous fondant of gilding, marble and airhead fresco. |
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The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original. |
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I like his playing, and he is a fine musician, but sometimes it feels like he is gilding the lily in these performances. |
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But I'm not gilding the lily, I truly thought it was impossible, and I refused to address myself emotionally. |
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You can't scrape off the gilding and pretend that what's left is unchanged in value. |
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It was like a step-by-step gilding demonstration straight from a Renaissance painting. |
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But the original paint and gilding are deteriorating and a replacement roof over the chapel has sagged and is resting on the mediaeval ceiling. |
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The Rococo style, characterized by lavish ornamentation, organic forms and the use of gilding, grew to its height in 18th century France. |
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The sky in the east gleams like burnished brass gilding the wavelets on Phoenix Bay. |
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The back of the slab had been worn very hollow, but the gilding and colour on the front were found to be in an excellent state of preservation. |
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The amber mosaic panels between the long mirrors and gilding have been painstakingly reproduced and constructed by Russian craftsmen. |
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Like Whistler, he was much concerned with the shade of gold leaf and the play of matte and bright gilding. |
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The gilding and frills of the eighteenth century were stripped away in favor of the natural beauty of materials and shapes. |
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In tempera painting the most spectacular technique to combine gilding and paint is that of sgraffito, most often used to depict cloth of gold. |
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Designs used blown glass techniques with little cutting and engraving but no painting or gilding. |
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Misery gave way to elation, however, when spears of sunlight rent the clouds, gilding the watery flatlands of Lewis. |
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At the same time, a modern oil-gilt finish was removed, revealing that nothing survived of the chair's original gilding. |
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Instead of gilding and elaborate flourishes, such beds have more modest detailing and are painted in subtle pale greys and beiges. |
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Although mass produced, these clocks were finely if not heavily gilded, and some wear should be expected if the gilding is claimed as original. |
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The skills he acquired from Arthur would later become apparent, particularly in his gilding on glass. |
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One way of gilding gingerbread was to paint it with egg white when hot and dab on the gold. |
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The project, from the cutting of a thick strip of solid silver bullion to the final gilding, took almost five months to complete. |
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Highlighted items are the paintwork gilding to the capitals in the entrance hall and dentil frieze details in the dining room. |
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The public rooms are short on marble and gilding, and long on rustic wood panelling. |
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When dry and hard the ground was scraped and abraded to a smooth flat surface, especially important if there were to be areas of gilding. |
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His skill in applying color and gilding is remarkable, considering that the twenty-year-old had not completed a normal term of apprenticeship. |
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He drew Ms Thomson's attention to the quality of the gilding on the lions and serpents which he described as marvellous. |
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Kent was a TV heartthrob with his Superman good looks gilding his newshawk reputation. |
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Above the doorways, cherubs cluster around rich pediments and everywhere there is the sparkle of freshly-applied 24-carat gilding. |
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Water gilding allows the object to be burnished to achieve a polished, shining surface. |
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More than 40 new curators have been taken on, with experts in everything from Chinese painting to metalwork, taxidermy, armoury and gilding. |
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Needless to say, the ormolu retains its original gilding, and the Blue John body is richly hued and striated. |
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Digital photographs of the chair were carefully enhanced to clean and brighten the red show cover, enliven the gilding, and replace lost areas of trim. |
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The library maintains and restores its collection in its bindery, where skills like paper making, hand-marbling, gilding and binding are practised. |
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In northern European paintings matt, unburnished gilding is also found and contracts may specify which areas are to be burnished and which are to be matt. |
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Moyer learned that on the sections of these pieces with recessed carved leaf decoration, the method used was oil gilding, which was usually reserved for gilding boiserie. |
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Its purpose is to provide a smooth, almost slippery, surface for later burnishing, but the red and yellow boles also enrich the colour of the gilding. |
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He dutifully screamed, exposing the braces gilding his teeth. |
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We have also experimented with gilding with silver leaf, and plating in copper and nickel baths, then oxidizing the finish to achieve a rich patina. |
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I feel that commenting on this response would be gilding the lily. |
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As he found much was still in the developmental stage here, it gave him the welcome opportunity to try out some of his copied recipes for gilding and color-making. |
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With this in mind she was determined to completely remove all dirt and corrosion from the domes before the gilding began and pioneered a method to do so. |
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The dome restoration was made possible by two private gifts that funded all of the gold leaf used in the gilding as well as other parts of the restoration. |
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Over this a surface of gesso, made up of clay, chalk, and size, would be applied in successive layers, and smoothed before paint and gilding was applied. |
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By the middle of the eighteenth century, glass-makers in Britain were decorating glass by various techniques including engraving, cutting, gilding, and enameling. |
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The organic materials in grounds, gilding, paint films, and varnishes become embrittled with age and can no longer flex to accommodate movement in the support. |
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As late as 1742 gilding shillings to pass as guineas was made treason. |
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I think it's gilding the lily a touch, given the sweetness of the dessert itself, but it's up to you entirely. |
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Experimentation eventual y arrived at today's most-common jacket material, copper alloyed with a little zinc, known as gilding metal. |
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Since gilding metal is a bit softer than copper, it fouls less, and gilding-metal bullets open reliably without an overly large hollowpoint. |
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The three patterns, Modano, Trapunto and Matelasse, all have ivory bodies with gold gilding on the rim and are designed to mix and match. |
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Minoan metal masters worked with imported gold and copper and mastered techniques of wax casting, embossing, gilding, nielo, and granulation. |
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He says mercury is used for gilding copper, while antimony is found in silver mines and is used as an eyebrow cosmetic. |
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The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem used Corinthian bronze treated with depletion gilding. |
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Ten alabaster fragments from the tomb are on display in the National Museum of Scotland and traces of gilding still remain on some of them. |
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He could see it gilding the ridges westward and slowly burning the fogfall that lay over Topanga Park. |
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Originating from 18th-century Paris, this bronze timepiece boasts original fire gilding. |
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I fear I'm in danger of gilding the lily 6 Should I plant my lily bulbs now or wait a while? |
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With a car this colourful, that would surely be gilding the lily. |
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He also employed Galle to regild the mounts with matt gilding. |
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Some were lavishly painted in polychrome enamels and gilding, while others, particularly later examples, might incorporate only a small crest or monogram in blue and white. |
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Parts were made in rolled gilding metal instead of the usual dipped metal. |
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Then again, flavoring whiskey is seen as gilding the lily to purists. |
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The tin disulphide is a pigment that is yellowish-brown in color, and is generally used as paint for gilding, RMIT University said in a statement. |
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Many different painting techniques have been used in making sculpture, including tempera, oil painting, gilding, house paint, aerosol, enamel and sandblasting. |
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Gilding may also be ornamented by various types of relief decoration. |
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On the right side of Emily, the omnipotent arbiter, were Wellborn, Oldname, Toplofty, Gilding, Smartlington, Clubwin, Lovejoy and Kindheart. |
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Gilding a grand and gloomy piano line with soulful horn and handclap motifs, Aussie band The Panics' UK debut has considerable presence and a Kings Of Leon endorsement. |
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