A modeller in wax or plaster; a technical assistant who repairs or restores pottery, metalwork, etc.
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1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5451Formatore to the Science and Art Department, the Trustees of the British Museum, and the Royal Academy of Arts.
1899 Proc. Zool. Soc. 776 Assistant formatore in the Museum.
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