Silver Liquid Mercury

Price range: $2,750.00 through $11,000.00

Silver Liquid Mercury

 Silver Liquid Mercury
Silver Liquid Mercury

Mercury silvering or fire gilding is a silvering technique for applying a thin layer of precious metal such as silver or gold (mercury gilding) to a base metal object. The process was invented during the Middle Ages and is documented in Vannoccio Biringuccio’s 1540 book De la pirotechnia.[1] An amalgam of mercury and the precious metal is prepared and applied to the object which is then heated, sometimes in oilvaporizing most of the mercury.