LOST WAX CASTING
MICROFUSIONE
LOST WAX
CASTING
Lost wax casting or microfusione:
a specific technique used to carefully reproduce
uneasy metal parts, even very small.
The original model is faithfully copied with silicone
elastic material and then it is reproduced in wax.
This copies in wax (positive reproduction of the
original one) will be coated with special ceramics.
These moulds will be cooked for many hours so the
wax will flow out allowing the fused brass to fill
them.
The chandelier, which weights 2,332 oz, was
commissioned by James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of
Abercorn (1811-85), who succeeded to the title in
1833 and was created Duke of Abercorn in 1868.
He also bought extensively from Storr & Mortimer.
A silver chandelier for
eighteen lights.
London, 1837
Robert Gerard II
152,5cm (60in)
ARIZZI
184
PROCESSING FOCUS
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