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White and gold marble dust idols This is the range people mean when they say they want something that looks expensive without being solemn. White and gold, finely ornamented, and lighter in the hand than it looks. Here is exactly what one is, in the first three sentences, because much of this market will not tell you at all. The body is cast resin. Over that goes a coating of marble dust, which is what gives the surface its whiteness, its density under the fingers and the look of stone. Then the jewellery, and the jewellery is the part worth buying these for. The jewellery is set by hand The ornaments are not moulded into the figure and they are not painted on. Each one is cast separately in brass, electroplated in gold or silver, and then stuck onto the piece by hand, one at a time. A crown, a necklace, the bands on the arms, the edge of a dhoti: each is its own small metal object, placed by a person. That is the reason these read differently across a room from a moulded piece. Moulded ornament is the same material as the figure and catches light the same way, so it reads as texture. Applied metal ornament sits proud of the surface and reflects independently, which is why the gold looks like gold rather than like a gold-coloured area. Two honest consequences follow. The finish varies a little from piece to piece, because a person placed every ornament, and that is a mark of hand work rather than a fault; do not expect two to be identical. And you should lift the piece by its base rather than by its jewellery, since the ornaments are applied rather than integral. What this is not It is not carved marble. Quarried marble is a single block of natural stone, carved away, and it is much heavier and much more expensive. Carving also limits how fine and how undercut ornament can be, which is the reason a moulded and hand-set piece can carry detail a carved one at the same price cannot. It is not solid marble dust either. The marble is a coating over a resin body, not the