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 ________________________________ From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chad Petrovay Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:47 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 P: 410.547.9000 x266 F: 410.837.4846 [log in to unmask] www.thewalters.org <http://www.thewalters.org/> Exhibitions: Maps: Finding our Place in the World on view March 16-June 8, 2008 Maps on Purpose on view March 1-June 8, 2008 Mapping the Cosmos: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope on view now through July 27, 2008