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 
telephone:  713-639-7824 
fax:  713-639-7780 

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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

Collections Database Administrator

The Walters Art Museum

600 North Charles Street

Baltimore, MD  21210

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F: 410.837.4846

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