Beautiful bronze Art Nouveau Bust of Lady

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$1,150.00

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This beautiful bronze sculpture is in the Art Nouveau style and would not only grace your study but would become the focal point of your interior. Its timeless classical elegance can be plainly seen. It was cast by the Lost Wax or Cire Perdue process.

Clay to wax to bronze - the 'lost wax' process - is a method for changing a sculpture made of soft clay into a harder material such as bronze, which then captures the most minute detail of the artists original work.

Lost Wax Method - sometimes called by the French name of cire perdue or the Latin, cera perduta is the process by which a bronze or brass is cast from an artists sculpture.

In industrial uses, the modern process is called investment casting. An ancient practice, the process today varies from foundry to foundry, but the steps which are usually used in casting small bronze sculptures in a modern bronze foundry are generally quite standardised.