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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;R. Antonis, post: 4315586, member: 3943&quot;]Hi everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I have a question about how to clean ormolu.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several things I need to determine first;</p><p>1) How do you recognize if something is ormolu, which is fire-gilded?</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I know there are some other gilding methods, like leaf gold or painting.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Don&#039;t know if there are more..&nbsp; But I&#039;m quite sure this is ormolu.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The loss of the gold, is it dirt or damage?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, </p><p>I have bought this beautiful opaline casket, made by Baccarat.</p><p>It was made in France, in the first half of the 19th century,</p><p>around 1840. It has 7 glass paste medaillons, and is richly </p><p>decorated with gilded bronze. </p><p><br /></p><p>(It might be possible that the bigger pieces are bronze, and the thinner metal is brass)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the pictures you can see that there are spots on the lid (where the handles are mounted) where the ormolu is still in tact.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have read a post on here where they suggested parrafin oil I believe.</p><p>I&#039;m not sure what that would be in dutch.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you!!</p><p>(The brighter pictures are made under lighting.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]351994[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]351995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]351996[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]351997[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]351998[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]351999[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352000[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352001[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]352002[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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