garden sculpture

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use of lead

  • Plaque showing a warrior and attendants
    In metalwork: Renaissance to modern

    …with the introduction of lead garden sculpture—figures, vases, and urns—in the late 17th century. An example of that work is a pair of garden vases 15 feet high at Schloss Schleissheim in Bavaria. The silvery gray color of such sculpture and its resistance to the weather made it suitable for…

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