| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Ormolu is the art of gilding that used an alloy of gold and mercury, creating ornamental metal objects, clocks, candelabra, doorknockers, and mounts; many of Fothergill and Boulton's designs were based on the neoclassical patterns illustrated in books such as Robert and James Adam, Works in Architecture (1773-79); see vol. 2, no. 4, plate 8 (277, fig. 46).
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