Gilding

But in the late 1960s, the architect Edward Vason Jones began to bedazzle the State Department’s eighth floor with cornices, columns, coffers and gilding.

In preparation for the Coronation Ms Blessley has spent the past four months meticulously preserving the flaking gilding and cleaning the chair's surface using sponges and cotton swabs.

The 16-year-old sensation has breezed into the third round on his Ally Pally debut, first seeing off Christian Kist before following up that with another victory over UK Open champion Andrew Gilding this week.

Torah ornaments, chiseled and engraved with silver gilding from the Beth Micahel Temple on display at ‘Houses of life: Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy’ at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, 2023.

Littler brushed aside UK Open champion Andrew Gilding and his five-time world title icon Raymond van Barneveld on the way to triumphing over 2018 world champ Rob Cross in the semi-final.

The reigning champion, Chris Dobey, also plays on Friday when he meets 2023 UK Open champion Andrew Gilding.

Drab unshorn hedgebanks and regenerating woodland masking abandoned market gardens and historic mine workings brighten in today’s sunshine, glossing ripe ivy berries, gilding yellow gorse and masses of catkins.

I mean, I'm not gonna turn it down, but that kind of gilding the chocolate lily's so unnecessary!

The government’s stimulus packages to deal with the coronavirus fallout is nothing but gilding the lily.

Can he credibly present himself as a man in step with the times without sounding off-key or stretching the truth, as he did while gilding his 1960s-era biography?

Every surface is crammed with the desirable: gilding, marble, Prussian blue leather, mosaic, art deco fashioned monogramming, crystal, velvet and every kind of luxurious food stuff you can shake an oyster fork at.

In 1728, aged 22, Franklin wrote what he hoped would be his own epitaph: The Body of B. Franklin Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms.

Other precious metals were also used, mainly for gilding or coinage.

The World characterized it as "more like a glowworm than a beacon."sfn Bartholdi suggested gilding the statue to increase its ability to reflect light, but this proved too expensive.

This includes special paint treatments such as aging and gilding, as well as simulating the appearance of wood, stone, brick, metal, stained glass--anything called for by the production designer.

Yenne, p. 75 Although the retablo had been relayered over the centuries, most of the original gilding remains underneath the modern materials (extensive restoration was begun in June 2006).