Paul Gilding is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), where he also ...

There are also several ormolu urns. (For the record, ormolu is a kind of gilding that involved the use of mercury, which led to the premature death of the craftspeople tasked with creating it.

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King Charles tried his hand at gilding an antique dragon during a visit to the Royal Collection Trust's Decorative Arts conservation workshop. The 76-year-old, who is a keen artist, had a go at ...