| 单词 | mercury gilding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmercury gilding mercury gilding n. a method of gilding using an amalgam of gold and mercury which can be painted on to the surface (see quot. 1960); (also) the result of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > methods of parcel-gilding1519 water gilding1703 leaf gilding1746 matting1758 fire gilding1831 mercury gilding1870 pink gilding1873 honey gilding1954 1870 Manufacturer & Builder Apr. 107 For mercury gilding, fine gold..is useless, it dissolves so badly; an alloy of gold and copper..must be employed. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 207/1 Mercury-gilding came in about 1780, and consisted of a mixture of gold with mercury which could be painted onto the ware, the mercury being driven off as a vapour during the firing process. 1971 Country Life 10 June 1419/2 This mercury gilding was harder, longer wearing and more brilliantly lustrous than honey gilding, but tended to display a brassy tinge. < as lemmas |
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