The Zinc Statuettes of Cornelius and Baker

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Grissom, Carol [1 ]
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[1] Smithsonians Museum Conservat Inst, Suitland, MD 20746 USA
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WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE | 2012年 / 46卷 / 01期
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10.1086/665364
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J [艺术];
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13 ; 1301 ;
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Slush casting of zinc statuettes in the United States was pioneered around 1853 by the Philadelphia-based Cornelius and Baker, then the largest gas-fixture company in the country. The technique permitted three-dimensional castings suitable for chandeliers, table lamps, and mantel decorations to be quickly and inexpensively made. Imitation-bronze paint made the dull gray metal attractive. Statuettes after Clark Mills's equestrian Andrew Jackson were acquired by a number of important collections, including the White House (in 1859). Outside of this, the company's early domestic "bronzes"-genre figures, copies of French statuettes, reductions of antique statues, and American subjects-are little known.
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