Here, ceramics curators tend to use the term gilding while metals
curators use gilt, as in gilt lining, silver gilt, etc. Not much help I
am afraid.
Eunice Glosson
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We use both gilt and gilded. Many of our curators use gilt as a noun,
as in "silver and silver gilt", "gilding", as well as "gilded and
polychromed wood"
Not to mention those who use guilt as a weapon...
David Aylsworth
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Registrar for Collections
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Subject: Guilding, gilt or gilded?
Do you have any policies concerning the use of the terms guilding, gilt
or gilded? I would like to standardized these within our institution,
and am trying to find out what other museums are doing.
Chad M Petrovay
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The Walters Art Museum
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