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For them, Gilded Age was a pejorative term for a time of materialistic excesses and widespread political corruption. [ 8 ] The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian Era in Britain and the Belle Époque in France.
Gilded frame ready for burnishing with an agate stone tool Application of gold leaf to a reproduction of a 15th-century panel painting. Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. [1] A gilded object is also described as "gilt".
Silver-gilt or gilded/gilt silver, sometimes known in American English by the French term vermeil, is silver (either pure or sterling) which has been gilded.Most large objects made in goldsmithing that appear to be gold are actually silver-gilt; for example, most sporting trophies (including medals such as the gold medals awarded in all Olympic Games after 1912) [1] and many crown jewels are ...
French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
The Second Gilded Age is a proposed time period of United States history that is debated to have begun between the 1980s and 2010s up to the current day. The Second Gilded Age is so named for its resemblance to the Gilded Age of the 1870s to 1890s, a period marked by laissez-faire capitalism and political corruption .
Strauss and Howe define the gilded generation (nomad archetype) as those born from 1822 to 1842. They came of age amid rising national tempers, torrential immigration, rampant commercialism, conspicuous consumerism, declining college enrollment, and economic disputes.
Raised jug, in gilding metal. Made in an English school metalwork class, 1970s–1980s. Gilding metal is a form of brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) with a much higher copper content than zinc content.