Anastacio Caedo portrayed Rajah Sulayman in a bronze statue finished in 1987. It was executed in a classical realist style, done in the tradition of his mentor, Guillermo Tolentino. In this piece, he depicted the historical ruler of Maynila brandishing a kris in a pose characterized by dignity and authority. Using the cire perdue or lost-wax technique allowed Caedo to create the intense facial expression and intricacy of the details in Rajah Sulayman’s clothes and armor. The technique involves the wax coating of a mould which would later be melted after it is covered with a perforated material, usually plaster or clay, thus the term lost-wax. The molten metal will then be poured into the space previously occupied by the wax.
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