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ormolu
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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or·mo·lu
/ ˈôrməˌloō/
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a gold-colored alloy of copper, zinc, and sometimes tin, cast into desired shapes and often gilded, used esp. in the 18th century for decorating furniture and making ornaments.
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The ormolu of Matthew Boulton.(Mathew Boulton: Ormolu by Nicholas Goodison)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, by, Nicholas Goodison (Christie...1805 until 1882. The manufacture of ormolu was a distinctly minor activity at the...Goodison writes in Matthew Boulton: Ormolu: "with the possible exception of silverware...
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London ormolu lighting from George II to George IV.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...equipment. This article looks at lighting in ormolu and relates the museum's holdings to...Illustrated Dictionary, Lucy Trench defines ormolu as a term for decorative objects or furniture...Recent analysis has shown that most ormolu objects are brass rather than bronze...
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An eclectic taste for ormolu: mounted ceramics at Tatton Park, Cheshire.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...little known collection of ceramics with ormolu and gilt-metal mounts. (1) Acquired...Notes indicate an interest in pieces of ormolu-mounted Chelsea and oriental porcelain...Significantly, the flask retains its French ormolu mounts executed in a highly fashionable...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Top Boulton art works return to city of his birth ormolu.(National)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 8/12/2000; ; 622 words
; ...private American collector last June. The ormolu pieces were hand-made at Boulton's...during the 1770s. He began producing ormolu - gilded bronze - ornaments and tableware...figures from Ovid's Metamorphosis in ormolu, is the centrepiece of the museum's...
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Ormolu candle vases found.(National)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/6/1999; 334 words
; Birmingham museums chief Mr Graham Allen takes a close look at one of a pair of Ormolu candle vases, recovered by police after they were stolen from Soho House, Handsworth, the home of Matthew Boulton. The vases...
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Books: Ormolu, and oodles of it John Gross on how the nouveaux riches first made their money and then used it to make their homes
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...especially when he is delineating the trappings of millionaire assertiveness ("plenty of crystal, and above all oodles of ormolu"). If there is less architectural detail than might have been expected, it is largely because very few Victorian plutocrats...
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BOOK REVIEW: Ormolu and Antimacassars
News Wire article from: University Wire; 7/9/2002; ; 542 words
; ...like his period characters, demand words no longer in common use. She added, They are rooms where antimacassars protect the upholstery, aspidistras fill the urns, pelmets hang at the windows, and the whatnot is decorated with ormolu.
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Our cover depicts an important discovery that will be unveiled by Ronald Phillips Ltd at the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair (16-22 June), a tea urn of ormolu made in about 1770 for an unknown patron by Matthew Boulton (1728-1809).(News and Letter)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2005; 541 words
; ...House Art and Antiques Fair (16-22 June), a tea urn of ormolu made in about 1770 for an unknown patron by Matthew Boulton...blue glaze shown in the drawing was not used.) Only two other ormolu tea urns by Boulton are known: one in the Royal Collection...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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JUST A BIT OF FUN; ORMOLU.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 4/7/2007; 275 words
; Which one of our four definitions is the correct one? 1 A very ornate portable lavatory 2 An Iranian leader 3 Gold leaf ground and used as a pigment for dressing furniture 4 The upper part of the arm where is joins the shoulder just under the armpit. ANSWER 3 Leaf-gold ground and used a pigment for
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Living with antiques: French furnishings in a New York City apartment.(Louis XIV, XV and XVI)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...1802). On the table is a pair of Louis XVI ormolu candlesticks. The Louis XVI ormolu sconce (or applique) in the shape of a thymus...either side of the painting are matching Louis XVI ormolu sconces. Four large windows bathe the living...
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ormolu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ormolu , finish used on metal to imitate gold...extended to alloys of copper and zinc. Ormolu mountings were characteristic of 18th...Gouthière, and Jacques Caffieri. Ormolu was produced on a large scale in England...
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Ronson PLC
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...immigrant parents. He was drawn to metallurgy at a young age, and in the 1880s developed the Ormolu process of gold plating. Aronson sold the rights to the Ormolu process and formed the Art Metal Company in 1886. Although the firm would become best...
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ornamental brasses
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...17th and 18th cent. small objects for domestic use, such as candlesticks, utensils, and hearth equipment were produced. Ormolu, a gilded or varnished brass or bronze, was often used in the fashioning of these objects and later for covering the wooden...
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Empire style
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...tables with claw feet and gondola, or sleigh, beds were in vogue. The staple wood was mahogany, solid or veneer; brass and ormolu mounts were the chief embellishments. Stucco decoration or painted classical motifs often enriched the walls; the ceilings...
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Caffieri
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Caffieri II, 1714-74, worked with him, and together they produced an immense volume of metalwork, including sumptuous ormolu (imitation gold made of brass) mountings for furniture, adornments for several of the royal palaces, e.g., Fontainebleau...
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