Method of Making Artificial Marble.—The artificial marble, with which the whole palace of Munich is adorned, and which is esteemed more than natural marble, for which it is frequently mistaken, is made of the common gypsum, first burned in the ordinary way, and afterwards put on the fire again in a copper vessel, and suffered to boil as it will, like water, for a long time. When this boiling ceases of itself the matter is taken out, and common colours, such as are used in painting, are mixed with it in various proportions,'which, on the wetting it with water, and working it in the common manner of plaster of Paris, diffuse themselves and imitate the veins of natural marble. — The Builder.
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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 12, 10 May 1845, Page 3
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