silver gilt

Its supports were of silver gilt, beautifully chased, and profusely set with enamelled and jewelled medallions.

All at once he raised his head; his brow slightly contracted like that of a man who has formed a resolution; he fixed his eyes upon an enormous clock that was about to strike ten, and taking up a whistle of silver gilt that stood upon the table near him, he shrilled it twice.

And this was a trade with her; she kept a sham gold watch, that is, a watch of silver gilt, and a purse of counters in her pocket to be ready on all such occasions, and I doubt not practiced it with success.

There were chased goblets, also, and tureens, salvers, dinner dishes, and dish covers of gold, or silver gilt, besides chains and other jewels, incalculably rich, though tarnished with the damps of the vault; for, of all the wealth that was irrevocably lost to the man, whether buried in the earth or sunken in the sea, Peter Goldthwaite had found it in this one treasure-place.

"You know that the official has decided that our twenty-one houses should he moved full into the fief of the Bishopric, and that we could redeem this homage only by paying the reverend bishop two marks of silver gilt of the price of six livres parisis.

A humorous silver gilt Easter egg on chick's feet, assayed in 1972, the cracked shell opening to reveal a surprise of enamelled flowers.

QUORN received a Silver Gilt Award at the East Midlands in Bloom award ceremony at Newark last week.

Villagers who make up the hard-working Brighten up Kirkconnel group won a Silver Gilt Award, as did the New Luce Gardening Group.

Left: Pair of silver gilt flagons by an unknown English maker, circa 1597/98, (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource Right: Strombus shell cup, attributed to Stephen Pilcherd and Anthony Hatch, London, circa 1660.

(c) Norfolk Museums Service Left: Pair of silver gilt flagons by an unknown English maker, circa 1597/98, (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource

Billy Alexander who scooped the top prize at last years Bloom festival won a Silver Gilt medal during his first appearance at the world-famous event in London .

(c) Norfolk Museums Service Left: Pair of silver gilt flagons by an unknown English maker, circa 1597/98, (c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource Silver giltmounted nautilus cup, attributed to Nicolaes de Grebber, (active 1574-1613) now in the Museum Prinsenhof, Delft.