Outstanding among them is a previously unknown type, a silver, parcel-gilt strainer with the handle in the form of a dolphin with garnet eyes.

Flanking the chimneypiece are sofas flanked by matching chairs of parcel-gilt wood with dark blue leather upholstery made by Saunders in 1757.

The monumental silver and parcel-gilt "Neptune" epergne made for Furber as part of this service was displayed at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876.

An elaborate parcel-gilt silver cup in the shape of a pineapple, made in London in 1610, testifies to the civilization the Jamestown settlers left behind three years earlier for a rude life in the wilderness.

Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, pewter, ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru, and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century.

They happily mix an early New York William and Mary high chest of drawers with Federal shield-back side chairs, or Chippendale parcel-gilt mahogany wall mirrors with a Connecticut bonnet-top Queen Anne secretary desk.

You have crossed the States, so that in all likelihood you have seen the head of it, parcel-gilt and curiously fluted, rising among trees from a wide plain; for this new character was no other than the State capitol of Muskegon, then first projected.

The painted and parcel-gilt furniture was no less oppressive than the darker pieces downstairs, and the room contained so many crystal paperweights, porcelains, small bronzes, silver-framed photographs, and other bibelots that, if considered ammunition, they could have been used to stone to death an entire mob of malcontents.