| 释义 |
‖ cire perdue|sir pɛrdy|
[Fr., = lost wax.]
A method of casting bronze by making a model with a wax surface, enclosing it in a mould, melting the wax out, and running in the metal between the core and mould.
1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 367/1 In the old method of bronze-casting, known as the cire perdue, wax is first used for the thickness of the statue..and is melted and run off before the metal is poured in. 1885Ibid. XIX. 183/2 Casting (by the ‘cire perdue’ process). 1904S. W. Bushell Chinese Art I. iv. 73 Chinese bronzes have always, as far back as we have any record, been executed by the cire perdue process. 1961S. Lloyd Art Anc. Near East iii. 106 The casting of this object is the earliest example known of the cire perdue process. |