Cire-perdue Definition

Cire-perdue Sentence Examples

• They are frequently stated to be of beaten bronze, but they are really castings, apparently by the cire perdue process.

• By the time of the XIIth Dynasty, and perhaps earlier, cire perdue casting over an ash core became usual.

• Their exact method is not certainly known, but it appears probable that they were acquainted with the process now called a cire perdue - the same as that employed by the great Italian artists in bronze.

• The advantage of this process is that the artist's model is not destroyed as in the cire-perdue, and if a "waster" results, a second mould can be taken.

• Two methods have been employed, the cire-perdue, or wax process (see above), and the present, or all sand method.