The green patina or verdigris of antique metals should not be removed nor its colouring spoiled with cleaning.
It is scarcely necessary to warn the collector against over cleaning, for to rub light bronzes which age has toned or encrusted with a beautiful patina would be vandalism indeed.
It is in that state so many of the bronzes of Grecian sculptors are found, and it is covered with patina of many delightful shades that we buy the metallic curios from China and Japan.
In course of time such bronzes have been coated over with a beautiful patina of green, that natural finish which age can alone impart.
The patina or patine is also the name given by the Romans to a shallow basin used for domestic purposes.
Patina imitation (a very good composition for the greening of copper): 1 part sal.
Even greater value has always been set upon the patina of iron, and many secret recipes were preserved in artist families for producing the fine, satin-like texture so much admired by all connoisseurs.
But after proper treatment[2] the former develops a glossy black patina with violet sheen, and the latter shows beautiful shades of grey with silvery lustre.
Okazaki Sessei has successfully achieved the casting of huge panels carrying designs in high relief; and whether there is question of patina or of workmanship, Jomi Eisuke has never been surpassed.
Great importance has always been attached by Japanese experts to the patina of metal used for artistic chiselling.
How beautifully the frieze is carved; what a fine patina it has formed; it shines like a mirror; surely the butler must have polished it every week when he waxed the oak floor.
Monocyclica in which the dorsal cup is confined to the patina and occasional intercalated anals; such ambulacrals or interambulacrals as enter the tegmen remain supra-tegminal and not rigidly united.
Monocyclica with dorsal cup primitively confined to the patina and an occasional single anal; tegmen solid; portions of the proximal brachials and their ambulacrals tend to be rigidly incorporated in the theca.
This surface was a fine sward, on the same level with the point upon which we sat, but separated from us by two small wooded ravines, with a strip of patina between them.
On arrival at the first ravine we immediately descended, and shortly after he reappeared on the small patina between the two ravines, within three hundred yards of us.
A tolerably level field of twenty acres was fenced in, and the work begun by firing the patina and burning off all the grass.
The hounds found a doe who broke cover close to me in a small patina and made straight running for the river.
The bend of the horse-shoe forms a circuit of about six miles, the rim of which is a wall of precipices and steep patina mountains, which are about six or seven hundred feet above the basin or the bottom of the amphitheatre.
At length we separated, and took up our stations upon different knolls to watch the patina and to listen.
We had found upon the patina at break of day, and the whole pack had gone off in full cry; but the whereabout was very uncertain, and having long lost all sound of the hounds we wandered here and there to no purpose.
These patina mountains are crowned by extensive forests, and narrow belts of jungle descend from the summit to the base, clothing the numerous ravines which furrow the mountain's side.
However, I soon got out on the patina about one-third of the way down the mountain, and here I met one of the natives, who was well posted.
The old official shrugged his shoulders philosophically: "Nothing, senor; it is at Patina Santa's.
The girls at the windows had nothing for it but to come downstairs, and Patina came with them, for Don Roque brooked no delay.
Patina Santa was the great high priest of one of the two temples of pleasure existing in Sarrio, but the sordid, wretched appearance of these temples was quite unlike the ancient famous ones of Greece.
But not only are they imperfect, they also seem old and weathered, with the natural patina of a dried-up riverbed.
The patina of age is a lesson that time is forever and that you, creature of an hour, would do well to know humility in the face of eternity.
The nearer the colour of the patina approaches to grey, the less solid is the bronze likely to be, a result which is no doubt caused by the presence of lead carbonate.
Bright green cracked and warty patina (muzzle of the harness from Boeotia, Ant.
For this thepatina must not be too thick, must be of moderate hardness, and above all must have an enamel-like surface.
There is, for instance, no doubt that the decay of bronzes, even of those with a patina which is apparently sound, is hastened by the great variations of temperature, caused by the rays of the sun falling directly upon them.
They obtain the following formulae and composition for the patina of the three bronzes[49]: I.
He describes these four conditions, three of which are undoubtedly patina or altered copper, as follows: (alpha) A green deposit with patches of blue.
Everybody who goes in for period furniture must get into it sooner or later, and the sooner the better, because if you are not able to recognize patina at a glance you are as good as lost when you undertake to appraise antique furniture.
However, patina in pants or on the braided seams of a presiding elder's Sunday suit is not so highly valued as when it occurs in relation to a Jacobean church pew or a William-and-Mary what-not.
Patina is a most fascinating subject, once you get thoroughly into it.
In fact among friends I am now getting to be known as thePatina Kid.
The faint greenish patina that covered it could have been painted only by the hand of the greatest artist of them all, Time.
In circumstances such as these the people of the Patina murdered their king, Lubarna II.
Patina de apua fricta--same as aphya, fried fresh small fish of the kind of anchovies, sardines, sprats.
The treatment of the bronze is successful and its patina is admirable.
Considered too utilitarian, their decorative appeal--the mellow patina of the wood plane or the delicately tapered legs of a pair of dividers--often goes unnoticed.
The description of Barber's brace documents a major technical change: wood to steel, leather washers to ball bearings, and natural patina to nickel plate.
The genuine patina of bronze coins is imitated by paint, which can be removed by spirits of wine.
The true ancient patina and oxide which time alone gives to bronze and silver, cannot be exactly imitated.
Any one can see that, in spite of thepatina that's formed over the metal.
