GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The process of "setting out" a design on a piece of metal by dipping it into a solution of boiling water and sodium sulphide, which oxidizes the silver and produces a deposit of black silver sulphide.
Drawn from
- Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 313.
- Charles H. Carpenter Jr, Gorham Silver (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997), 186.
NOTES
Updated format and wrote rule, JBA 8/15/17
Changed CC title from "oxidizing" to "oxidation" to be in-line with Getty Vocab hierarchy
Additional materials related to this content chunk appear below. Relevant Getty and DMA terms added as note tags.
tagged %inadequate rules as this definition may be able to reach more objects once the rule to the tag works.
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set operator as OR
apply to content where content contains oxidation
apply to objects where public_notes contains oxidation
apply to objects where label_copy contains oxidation
Category
rules_operator
OR
General Description
The process of "setting out" a design on a piece of metal by dipping it into a solution of boiling water and sodium sulphide, which oxidizes the silver and produces a deposit of black silver sulphide.
Drawn from
- Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art; New York, New York; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 313.
- Charles H. Carpenter Jr, Gorham Silver (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1997), 186.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
Updated format and wrote rule, JBA 8/15/17
Changed CC title from "oxidizing" to "oxidation" to be in-line with Getty Vocab hierarchy
Additional materials related to this content chunk appear below. Relevant Getty and DMA terms added as note tags.
tagged %inadequate rules as this definition may be able to reach more objects once the rule to the tag works.
rules
Apply To
Content
content
Contains
oxidation
Apply To
Objects
public_notes
Contains
oxidation
Apply To
Objects
label_copy
Contains
oxidation
source file
materials_and_techniques-0010.xml.nores