Traditionally an Islamic custom, sugar sculptures were paraded on special feast days at the Ottoman court before Italian traders appropriated the spectacle and the rest of Europe followed. Either made with a syrup, poured into the mould or with a very fine modelling paste, which produces an effect finer then porcelain.

This entirely unique copper mould in the form of a classical temple was most likely made to showcase craftsmanship and was possibly produced for the Great Exhibition of 1851.

English, Mid Nineteenth Century

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