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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 688 — GILDING.

William Johnston translation

Herodot. lib. ii. 63. See Winkelmann Hist. de l’Art.—Caylus, Recueil d’Antiquités, i. p. 193. Gori seems to have had in his possession two Egyptian gilt figures. See Mus. Etr. t. i. p. 51.

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