Giltwood Polychrome Armchair, 19th Century, Possibly Italian
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- Polychrome - Made or finished in many colours. For furniture, it is used to indicated a painted finish.
- Giltwood - Giltwood is used to describe a gold finish on furniture and other decorative wooden items, whereby a thin sheet of gold metal, called gold leaf, is applied to the surface for decorative purposes.
Unlike gilding, where the gold leaf is applied over a coating of gesso, with giltwood the gold leaf is applied direct to the surface, or over a coat of linseed oil gold leaf adhesive.
Most gold-finished mirrors will be gilded, whereas furniture with gold highlights will have the gold applied through the giltwood method.
This item has been included into following indexes:
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chairs, singles / pairs / threes, style or period
- armchairs 1,767
- Italian 96
- Victorian, other styles 1,208
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