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This replica of a pear was made using the historic Garnier Valletti wax modelling technique, the refined and inimitable 19th-century method, specific to the creation of scientific museum collections, with a mixture of waxes. Each fruit is created by pouring a hot paste into plaster casts. This raw material, after various corrections and polishing, is then prepared with resin priming and subsequently coloured with glazes until, after about three months of work and a dozen coats, an exact replica of the original fruit is obtained. The weight of the finished piece is also the same as that of the original fruit.

Beeswax, Aggregate, Dammar, Resin, Spermaceti, Model

Crafted by

Davide Furno