File: WLA vanda Lidded incense burner. jpg | Japanese Incense Burner, Signed ' Dai Nippon, Koko Sei ', Patinated bronze inlaid with gilt bronze and other soft metal alloys c. 1877

File: Carpeaux Valenciennes 080810 26 Ville. jpg | Patinated plaster model for Valenciennes defending the arts of peace with the arts of war

The ormolu technique was extensively used in the French Empire mantel clocks, reaching its peak during this period.

* A pair of large candelabra of Siberian porphyry, ormolu & Malachite centre and two side tables, presented by Nicholas I of Russia.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

Dynasties of Parisian ébénistes, some of them German-born, developed a style of surfaces curved in three dimensions ( bombé ), where matched veneers ( marquetry temporarily being in eclipse ) or vernis martin japanning was effortlessly complemented by gilt-bronze (" ormolu ") mounts: Antoine Gaudreau, Charles Cressent, Jean-Pierre Latz, Jean-François Oeben, Bernard II van Risamburgh are the outstanding names.

One of the finest pieces of continental furniture in the collection is the Rococo Augustus Rex Bureau Cabinet dated c1750 from Germany, with especially fine marquetry and ormolu mounts.

At Soho, he adopted the latest techniques, branching into silver plate, ormolu and other decorative arts.

Where metal is gilded, it was traditionally usually silver in the West, to make silver-gilt ( or " vermeil ") objects, but gilt-bronze is much used in China, and also called ormolu if it is Western.

It seems likely that as a royal craftsman he was able to circumvent guild restrictions and produce his own ormolu | gilt-bronze mounts: Riesener's princely portrait by Antoine Vestier shows the cabinet-maker at one of his richly-mounted tables, with drawings for gilt-bronze mounts.

The whole was furnished in what became known as " Le Style Rothschild ", that is, 18th-century French furniture, boulle, ebony, and ormolu, complemented by Old Masters and fine porcelain.

Rosewood, mahogany, bird's eye maple veneer, marble, ormolu, and leather.

Mr. Vanderbilt was known to play the violin and Mrs. Vanderbilt the piano, which is a second empire French mahogany ormolu mounted piano.

Early 19th century French cut-glass and ormolu chandelier in the Green Room ( White House ) | Green Room of the White House.

By the early 18th century, ornate cast ormolu forms with long, curved arms and many candles could be found in the homes of much of the growing merchant class.

Image: vshECchandelier. JPG | Electrified gaslight chandelier, ormolu, bronze, and glass, c. 1858, by Cornelius and Baker, Executive Chamber, the Vermont State House, Montpelier, Vermont

Soho produced high-quality buckles, buttons, boxes, trinkets in steel, gold, sterling silver, goods of ormolu and Sheffield plate.

They are most frequently constructed from any combination of ormolu, porcelain, and wood.

They are almost always made of wood, often ebony, and often ornamented with ormolu mounts, brass inlay, wood or tortoise shell veneer, or decorative varnish.

The majority of the lighting fixtures in the building are original, restored and electrified ormolu gas chandeliers and wall sconces manufactured in Philadelphia by Cornelius and Baker during the 1850s.

The manufacture of true ormolu employs a process known as mercury-gilding or fire-gilding, in which a solution of nitrate of mercury is applied to a piece of copper, brass, or bronze, followed by the application of an amalgam of gold and mercury.

No true ormolu was produced in France after around 1830 because legislation had outlawed the use of mercury.

Therefore, other techniques were used instead but nothing surpasses the original mercury-firing ormolu method for sheer beauty and richness of colour.

A later substitute of a mixture of metals resembling ormolu was developed in France and called pomponne, though, confusingly, the mix of copper and zinc, sometimes with an addition of tin, is technically a type of brass.

The Italian language version of the disputed article 17 of the treaty stated that the Emperor of Ethiopia consented ( i. e. was required ) to Italy representing Ethiopia in its relations with all foreign sovereigns and states, which made the Ethiopian Empire a protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy.

The country was first unified by the Idrisid dynasty in 789, representing the first Islamic state in Africa autonomous from the Arab Empire.

Through his personal patronage, Suleiman also presided over the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire, representing the pinnacle of the Ottoman Turks ' cultural achievement in the realm of architecture, literature, art, theology and philosophy.

In 1834, working with the Chief Superintendent of Trade representing the British Empire, William, Lord Napier, tried unsuccessfully to negotiate with the Chinese officials in Canton.

Samuel ( also Samuil, representing, pronounced ) was the Tsar ( Emperor ) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014.

In the early 20th century as Katanga's mining industries developed, some British in Northern Rhodesia, representing the losers in the scramble for Katanga, thought of Stairs as a mercenary and traitor to the British Empire.

File: Clock Thomire Louvre OA9511. jpg | A French Empire mantel clock representing Mars and Venus, an allegory of the wedding of Napoleon I and the Archduchess Marie Louise.

In 2002, Maurice was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), along with his brothers, but the awards were not presented until 2004, after Maurice's death ; his son Adam accompanied Barry and Robin to Buckingham Palace for the ceremony, representing his father.

Historically, a Patriarch may often be the logical choice to act as Ethnarch, representing the community that is identified with his religious confession within a state or empire of a different creed ( as Christians within the Ottoman Empire ).

There is no mention of any " state " flag until the mid-14th century, when a Spanish atlas, the Conosçimiento de todos los reynos depicts the flag of " the Empire of Constantinople " combining the red-on-white Cross of St George with the " tetragrammic cross " of the ruling house of the Palaiologoi, featuring the four betas or pyrekvola (" fire-steels ") on the flag quarters representing the imperial motto Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων (" King of Kings Reigning over those who Rule ").

The previously mentioned term Clibanarii ( possibly representing a distinct class of cavalry from the cataphract ) was brought to the fore in the 10th and 11th centuries of the Byzantine Empire, known in Byzantine Greek as Klibanophoros, which appeared to be a throwback to the super-heavy cavalry of earlier antiquity.

The formative strategy war-game Empire was notably inspired by the RAF Fighter Command scenes in Battle of Britain in which staff move counters representing friendly and enemy aircraft and ships over the large map of Britain, from which tactical decisions are made by the air commanders.

On 28 February 1879, forty-nine delegates representing the Albanian population of the Ottoman Empire signed a petition in Preveza, with a threat to take arms to prevent an annexation of Preveza to Greece.

His cartoons rely on elaborate physical metaphors which have to be labelled to render them comprehensible ; an example is his cartoon of Britain's handover of Hong Kong, where Chris Patten, " making a monkey of himself ", is represented as King ( Hong ) Kong climbing the British Empire State Building, swatting at aeroplanes representing China and the handover year, 1997.

He continued to paint representations of the heroic French army during the Second Empire and maintained his commitment to representing war in an accessible and realistic way.

Goddesses named for and representing the concept Liberty have existed in many cultures, including classical examples dating from the Roman Empire and some national symbols such as the British " Britannia " or the Irish " Kathleen Ni Houlihan ".

It is a good descriptive term, particularly for representing the commonalities of the Orthodox peoples in the Ottoman Empire [...], but also in emphasizing the continuity of two imperial traditions ".

The symbol derives from a capital " L ", representing libra, the basic unit of weight in the Roman Empire, which in turn is derived from the Latin name for scales or a balance.

Turkish postcard from 1895 about the Kanûn-ı Esâsî of November 23, 1876: Sultan Abdülhamid II, the Grand Vizier, and the Millet ( Ottoman Empire ) | millets grant freedom to an idealized female figure representing Turkey, whose chains are being smashed.

The Roman Empire may be represented by a proud warrior ' raising ' an undersized figure, representing the defeated enemy.

The Hellenic Army Emblem is the two-headed eagle with a Greek Cross escutcheon in the centre, representing the links between modern Greece, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Byzantine Empire.

By 1884, Adolph Woermann, representing all West African companies as their spokesman, petitioned the imperial foreign office for " protection " by the German Empire.

In the aftermath of the battle of Actium in the Ambracian Gulf in 31 BC, Octavian himself founded Nicopolis, the city of victory, in 28 BC, symbolically representing his successful unification of the Roman Empire under one administration and, geographically, a major transportation and communications point linking the eastern and western halves of the Mediterranean.

His Judith representing the Croat people defending against the Ottoman Empire invasion – Marulić remained the ineradicable centre of Renaissance Croatian patriotism – of Croathood itself.

In team competition, he played at the first, third and fourth Olympiads, representing the ' British Empire ' team.