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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Houseful, post: 339857, member: 1067&quot;]Bronzes are usually hollow because when the hot metal cools after casting areas like fingers would cool at a faster rate than the main body making cracks and distortion. Do you remember when the hollow statue of Saddam Hussain was pulled down? The foundry casts using hollow waxes which melt out giving the lost wax process. Some things are sand cast again as hollow but they are often larger pieces which don’t need to show so much detail. Only small bronzes are cast solid, think Axe heads. That said yours may have a filling in it to make it even heavier but bronzes are quite heavy anyway. I think you bought very well, it has got ‘it’. I have had things cast and it is an expensive and labour intensive process to get done even when you supply your own waxes. You might want to give it a clear wax or brown shoe polish, unless you like the verdigris. Whatever you do don’t clean it with metal polish. Good find, I would have bought it. Yes, limited edition of 20.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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