It was introduced into many European porcelain factories in the eighteenth century, and was commonly employed for the casting of terra cotta sculpture in the nineteenth century. The mold is rocked and rolled to insure that all of the smallest spaces are reached, and the walls are more or less even. Excess material is often poured out. Chocolate is regularly cast into bunnies and other shapes in this way. The indirect cast wax model in lost-wax casting is cast in this way in a plaster mold which has first been moistened.
Plaster can itself be slush cast.
Slip casting is a type of slush casting. Also see release agent . The colored glass or enamel used in mosaic . A loose, shirtlike garment which protects the clothes of an artist . Smocks usually hang below the waste.