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lost-wax casting
Sign in to saveAlso known as cire-perdue process, investment casting, lost-wax process, precision casting, lost wax
process by which a duplicate sculpture (often metal) is cast from an original sculpture
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- casting
- Image
- Lost Wax-Model of apple in plaster.jpg
- Has use
- art of sculpture
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- uses
- melting
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Lost-wax casting
- location of creation
- Palestine
- inception
- 4500-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Illustration of stepwise bronze casting by the lost-wax method
Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue ( French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) – is the process by which a duplicate sculpture (often a metal, such as silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture. Intricate works can be achieved by this method.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lost-wax casting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.