Metal casting
Casting creates a form by pouring molten metal into a mould. In lost-wax methods, wax is removed to leave a cavity for the metal.
Model · mould · furnace · metal
Study projecting details, hollow spaces and surface texture. The material alone does not establish which casting method was used.
A simplified process; practices vary across places and periods.
From material to image.
- 01
Create a model
- 02
Prepare a mould
- 03
Introduce molten metal
- 04
Finish the surface
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↗The Wade Cup with Animated Script
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↗Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread
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↗Feline Incense Burner
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↗Headdress
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↗Male figure
Creator not recorded
↗Knife (Mandau) and scabbard
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↗Amitabha Triad
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↗Statue of Amitabha
Creator not recorded
↗Buddhist Ritual Bell
Creator not recorded
↗Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra and Eleven Volumes of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
Creator not recorded
↗Buddha of the Future (Miroku Bosatsu)
Creator not recorded
↗Knife Sheath
Creator not recorded
↗Peony Floor Lamp with a Bamboo Base
Probably by Clara Wolcott Driscoll
↗Indian Basket Lamp
Tiffany Studios
↗Standing Buddha
Creator not recorded
↗Royal Female Donor
Creator not recorded
↗Bodhisattva of Wisdom (Manjushri)
Creator not recorded
↗Pair of naga finials
Creator not recorded
↗Master of Animals Cheekpiece
Creator not recorded
↗Ancestral Commemorative Head (uhunmwun-elao)
Creator not recorded
↗Gold Weight (abrammuo): Geometric Form
Creator not recorded
↗Male Figure (nkishi)
Creator not recorded
↗"Pony" Wisteria Lamp
Clara Wolcott Driscoll
↗Singing Man
Ernst Barlach