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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 804075, member: 5833"]Is there wax residue up to the same height on all four walls?</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the wine bottle hypothesis. I have one other thought. I have never seen a really thorough explanation of the process & material used for making 'sulphur' gem impressions. They were collected in vast numbers at one time.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36253/oak-cabinet-containing-sixty-drawers-of-gem-impressions-in-red-sulphur-wax-by-james-tassie-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36253/oak-cabinet-containing-sixty-drawers-of-gem-impressions-in-red-sulphur-wax-by-james-tassie-2/" rel="nofollow">https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36253/oak-cabinet-containing-sixty-drawers-of-gem-impressions-in-red-sulphur-wax-by-james-tassie-2/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166430/cast-tassie-james/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166430/cast-tassie-james/" rel="nofollow">https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166430/cast-tassie-james/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know whether the 'sulphur' was liquid or the consistency of modeling clay when in mold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 804075, member: 5833"]Is there wax residue up to the same height on all four walls? I like the wine bottle hypothesis. I have one other thought. I have never seen a really thorough explanation of the process & material used for making 'sulphur' gem impressions. They were collected in vast numbers at one time. [URL]https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36253/oak-cabinet-containing-sixty-drawers-of-gem-impressions-in-red-sulphur-wax-by-james-tassie-2/[/URL] [URL]https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166430/cast-tassie-james/[/URL] I don't know whether the 'sulphur' was liquid or the consistency of modeling clay when in mold.[/QUOTE]
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