Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [additive and joining processes and techniques]
6. [surface covering processes and techniques]
7. metallizing
8. gilding (technique)

Anotations

Scope note:

Subtractive process which progressively removes base metals from a gold-containing alloy to produce a nearly pure layer of gold. Depletion gilding was used in ancient Greece, in Egypt in the second century BC, and in pre-Columbian America.