French Ormolu Keyhole

Some of these ormolu around the keyhole 

are so beautiful and extravagant

in the French antiques.

Ormolu is an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold in a mercury amalgam to an object of bronze. Craftsmen principally used ormolu for the decorative mountings of furniture, clocks, lighting devices, and  porcelain. Ormolu mountings attained their highest artistic and technical development in France.

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