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but these fanciful swimmers are happy to make a splash anywhere in your home

salad plate (8

and 5/8 of an inch across at the widest point

Breathtaking in its subtle and elegant beauty

flattened form

Jupiter Series II A169937 but these fanciful swimmers areTo create this lively sculpture, artist Catherine L. Bohrman utilized a process called "lost wax". After sculpting the figures and background in clay, she then created a wax replica from the clay mold. Then, at a bronze foundry, the wax form was repeatedly dipped in a ceramic slurry in order to form a shell around it. Once this shell was dry and heated, it was able to withstand the heat of liquid bronze being poured into it. The ceramic shell was then