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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mill Cove Treasures, post: 442344, member: 60&quot;]NEVER use water on a gold leaf frame even if you want to remove the painted surface. From your photographs, it doesn&#039;t appear to be gilded.&nbsp; It looks like wood underneath and that gold was a rub.&nbsp; If that had been water gilded or oil gilded, you would have already damaged the red bole and the gesso with the water.&nbsp; It will begin to crack and fall off in the months, possibly few years to follow.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it was oil gilded, you will need to leave it alone for several weeks and let the moisture dry out before gilding it again.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Post of photograph of the entire back of the frame and&nbsp; a close up of one of the corners from the back side.&nbsp; That might help ID it and the corner close-up will give a better indication as to how it was finished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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