This frame has been water gilded all over with silver leaf, there are various bole colours (yellow, red, and black) beneath the leaf. The leaf is distressed to show the colours coming through the gilding, the whole frame is then coloured and toned slightly to give it an aged and tarnished look, this was done with a mixture of black and walnut spirit based stain and pigmented wax. The whole surface was then sealed to prevent the leaf darkening any more in the future. The painting is by Simon Quadrat.
