Gilding Collection

London Coliseum - the Royal Box
Promotional postcard of the Royal Box of the London Coliseum. A Royal party visiting the Coliseum would enter by a private entrance into a richly furnished lounge

Statue of Virgin Mary
A statue of the Virgin Mary in the cathedral at Victoria (Rabat) on the Island of Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago

Advert, W Rosenberg & Co, Fine Art Dealers, Liverpool
Advert, W Rosenberg & Co, Fine Art Dealers, Lime Street, Liverpool. circa 1915

Father Christmas distributing gifts - children rail station
Father Christmas distributing gifts - children on a railway station. Date: 1902

Lambeth Doulton Faience Factory - Gilding - Victorian period

Gilding pottery

Decorating Room, gilding the Bleu de Roi, Alfred Meakin
Decorating Room, gilding the Bleu de Roi Date: 1913

Gilding Pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

Circa 1900 Other Ranks Cap Badge White Metal
circa, 1900, Other, ranks, cap, badge, white, metal, gilding, Die, struck, front, description, stag, lodged, within, circular, closed, oak, wreath, half, scrolls, right, left, whole, upon, Maltese

The gilder at work: gilding the edge of the plates. Date: 1913

Young women painting plates, this would of been done in several stages. Date: 1913

Shop front, E B Clarke, Picture Framers, Kingston
Shop front, E B Clarke, Picture Framers, 29 Eden Street, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. circa 1910

Button Making, Elliotts Factory, Birmingham 1844
A woman sits in front of a gilding oven at Elliotts Button Factory, Birmingham. The buttons are coated in a mixture of mercury and gold

Elkingtons Electro-plate Factory, Birmingham 1844
The silver deposit room at Elkingtons Electro-plate Factory, Birmingham. The objects to be plated are connected to an electrical cable (routed across the ceiling)

View from ceiling of Lichfield Cathedral
View from the ceiling of Lichfield Cathedral from high in the choir transept

Potter artist, Stoke on Trent
A skilled potter artist sits holding a plate in a Stoke on Trent pottery workshop. He painted by hand the gold rim around each plate. Pottery believed to be Minton, but unsure Date: 1986

Card commemorating the artist Giotto (1267-1337), famed as a painter of frescos.The caption rather elegantly reads: " To you the flower of my kindest feelings." Date: 1904

Queen Mary - Britannia Rules the Waves
Mary of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress consort of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V (1867-1953) - " Rule Britannia

Father Christmas distributing gifts to the town children. Date: 1902

Plate
Glazed porcelain plate with scalloped edges from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose

Teacup
Glazed porcelain tea cup from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose in the centre

Plate, teacup and saucer

Sugar pot
Glazed porcelain sugar pot from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose

Porcelain tea service
Glazed porcelain tea pot from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose

Slop bowl
Glazed porcelain slop bowl from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose

Teapot
Glazed porcelain tea pot from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose

Teacup and saucer

Slop bowl, milk jug, teapot and sugar pot
Glazed porcelain tea pot from a tea service, in the Dragon shape with a white ground decorated with a grey checked pattern, gilding, and a pink rose

Queen Mary - Britannia Rules the Waves
Mary of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress consort of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V (1867-1953) - " Rule Britannia

Chromolithograph Devotional Card - Flowers circa 1910s

Maesta, 1280-1285, by Cimabue (c. 1240-1302)
Cimabue (c.1240-1302). Florentine painter. Maesta, 1280-1285. Uffizi Gallery. Florence. Italy

Roman Art. Sarcophagus of Aurelia Kyrilla. Marble. Carlsb
Roman Art. Sarcophagus of Aurelia Kyrilla. Marble. C. 300 A.C. From Rome. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Italy. Florence. South Gate of the Baptistery by Andrea Pisano. His decorative panels depicting the life of Saint John the Baptist

The London Hippodrome - interior
Promotional postcard showing different views of the interior of the London Hippodrome which were all lavishly furnished and ornately decorated. Date: circa 1902

Tonkin region - Vietnam - Traditional painters & decorators
Tonkin region - Vietnam - Traditional painters, artisans & gilders. Date: 1907

OLBRICH, Joseph Maria (1867-1908). Vienna Secession Building. 1898. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Golden dome. Vienna Sezession

Holy Nikolaos - Solovetsky Monastery
Solovky Islands, Solovetsky, Russia: Portrait of Holy Nikolaos in the yard of the Solovetsky Monastery. 2010

Guardian statues, Wat Phra Keo, Bangkok, Thailand
A row of guardian statues lining the elaborate Phra Mondop (Library) of the Wat Phra Keo (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), Bangkok, Thailand

Gilding The Lily by David Wright
A David Wright illustration of a lady wrapped in a large fur coat. She looks away from the viewer, whilst putting in here earring

St Peter & St Paul Cath
A view up to the elaborately decorated ceiling of the St Peter and St Paul Cathedral, Mdina, Malta

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