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Tibetan Statue – Circa: 1000 – 1200. The statue was damaged in shipping. The statue was made by a hollow casting process. In a photo below a broken piece of the base shows the cross-section where the layers of cast can be seen. A composition of clay, mud, fine sand, animal hair and animal skin glue is poured into a mold allowed to dry around the inner edges until it is barley a quarter inch thick, The remaining composition is removed and the composition is allowed to dry. When hardened another composition is made and poured into the statue and allowed to dry for a while and then poured out. This procedure is repeated until the casting is around a half inch thick. The head, arms and hands are separate pieces and are solid. There is a very old piece of solid wood that is in the head and sticks into the neck where they were glued together.

   The base broke into many pieces and the area where the legs meet the base pulverized.

   The base was glued together first by repairing the piece into sections. The sections were assembled by gluing back into place. The sections had to be assembled in the opposite order that they fell apart when they broke or else fitting them together would be very difficult. After the base was assembled the seams of the piece were re-enforced by a composition of my own, (trade secret). Missing details were reproduced where needed, including gold leaf work.



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