There are not now in England lead statues of any size executed during the middle ages; but magnificent figures of bronze cast by the cire perdu method remain to us.
By the time of the XIIth Dynasty, and perhaps earlier, cire perdue casting over an ash core became usual.
As early as the pyramid times solid casting by cire perdue was already used for figures: but the copper statues of Pepi and his son seem, by their thinness and the piecing together of the parts, to have been entirely hammered out.
In the case of bronzes, for instance, it has been pointed out that the cire perdue process is superior to that by means of which reproductions may be made; nor is this the only cause of inferiority in bronze reproductions.
Torel worked at the palace, and the statues were cast in "cire perdue" process, being executed in the churchyard itself.
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