patination

In marine climates, the entire patination process can take seven to nine years.

This year the piece is scheduled for a major cleaning and patination, or new coating.

He also incorporates metal and metal patination in the projects.

"They have hints of radiant color due to the natural patination process in the tomb.

If it has colour and patination and is not over-restored, it's worth the money.

Item No. 6: looks like a jewellers' blow torch, having a fine patination.

Unfortunately, the disastrous patination here gives the bronzes a chocolatey look.

For artworks, patination is often deliberately accelerated by applying chemicals with heat.

This patination is very difficult to induce artificially.

Where patination does take place in arid environments, it may mature to an ebony or nut brown.

Further information is available on copper patination.

Patination composition varies with the reacted elements and these will determine the color of the patina.

If patination has flaked off, repatination may be recommended.

In all environments except the coastal areas, patination takes longer for vertical surfaces due to more rapid water runoff.

The old plaster walls were stained, the wood floors dark and gleaming; it had taken many years of life to achieve that patination.

An important hoard had a group of 72 pieces with similar patination and soil crusting, suggesting common burial.

One example of a traditional Japanese patination for mokume-gane is the use of rokusho.

The patinas on copper alloys were often appreciated in their own right and a study of the patination is central to all authenticity studies.

At the time it was covered with lichen and patination and was hardly visible.

Although other patination agents can be used on these metals, some artisans prefer the rich colors achieved through traditional Rokushō.

In the case of antiques, several views are held on the value of patination and its replacement if damaged, known as repatination.

His black patination is characteristic.

Patination of the past.

Copper's patination process is complex.

One advantage is that the treatment disguises surface markings on bright mill finish copper and can advance the natural patination process.