Ormolu

He discussed woods with him -- rosewood, mahogany, walnut, English oak, bird's-eye maple, and the manufactured effects such as ormolu, marquetry, and Boule, or buhl. ❋ Theodore Dreiser (1908)

This crimson room had two doors upon the side facing the three windows: The innermost opened into a large supper-room, in which a table was spread covered with the usual refreshments of European parties, -- tea, ices, lemonade, and et ceteras, -- and the other opened into a ball-room which is a sort of miniature of the 'salle blanche' of the Winter Palace, being white and gold, and very brilliantly lighted with 'ormolu' chandeliers filled with myriads of candles. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

He discussed woods with him — rosewood, mahogany, walnut, English oak, bird’s-eye maple, and the manufactured effects such as ormolu, marquetry, and Boule, or buhl. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Still, he remembers one space offering a welcome caesura from the ormolu and swag: the Blue Room, which the Count used as his personal sitting area. ❋ Jen Renzi (2011)

From the Grand Hall will come a striking gilt-bronze and ormolu center table from the late 18th-early 19th century attributed to one of the renowned cabinet decorators of the time, sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire. ❋ Margaret Studer (2011)

A suite of four 19th-century 12-light candelabras are also a monumental feature from the Grand Hall, with classical women in flowing, dark ormolu robes standing on a green marble base, balancing the golden candle holders on their heads estimate: €200,000-€300,000. ❋ Margaret Studer (2011)

Where viewers might see shiny patterns, McMillan sees ormolu mounts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Another Baroque highlight is a decorative Florentine cabinet embellished with ormolu and Sicilian jasper plaques estimate: £25,000-£40,000. ❋ Margaret Studer (2011)

For a refit, we were told, and we went to the pre-sale gathering at Bonhams and saw the 1950s painted panels, the chandeliers, the ormolu light fittings, the fret-worked tables and the lattice chairs, all somehow sadder and more tatty away from their legendary surroundings, marking the end of an era. ❋ Julian Fellowes (2010)

A: “Ormolou” is probably a misspelling of “ormolu,” a kind of gold leaf and not a furniture covering of the sort your sister-in-law probably has in mind, which is an antimacassar. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

The room was filled with hothouse flowers, twinkling electric lights, gilded candelabra, potted palms and crystal and ormolu chandeliers hung with pink roses and asparagus vines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Increasing pomp and opulence distinguish Phyfe's work from 1815 to 1825, which features richly figured mahogany, kingwood, rosewood, white and colored marble, brass inlay, lavish gilding and finely cast mounts of ormolu gilt metal. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2012)

This is, after all, a workie with access to a lot more ormolu gewgaws and Georgian plate than most and Granny and Grandpa can't leave everything to the corgis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mass-produced paintings hung on the walls; precious glass-front cabinets held worthless accessories - ormolu clocks, porcelain kittens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And as the radiance gradually intensified, morphing from platinum to ormolu and so to a nearly radioactive gold, no one could mistake that the sun, if such it was, was rising deep down inside the vast body of the lake. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)

[Ormolu] was rescued by brave [Sir] [FRoSTByTe] ❋ Pyroplexus (2005)