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But if you are looking for the same sense of cast-bronze solidity of traditional Range Rovers, the glorious excess, you'll probably be a little disappointed.

Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era Dan Neil 2011

Attached diagonally to a corner of each rectangle, and weighting it like an anchor, is a softly stepped cast-bronze form suggesting stone or relic, but also swinging pendulum and parasite.

Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes Lance Esplund 2010

"Pieces like the sofa and tufted library chair form a clean-lined backdrop for more exuberant accents like the cast-bronze tree stump coffee table."

Scene-Stealing Décor Jen Renzi 2011

Emboldened, she walked him through the restaurant, beginning with the cast-bronze door handle under the portal window, the arrangement of pear blossoms by the hostess stand, the random-width pine flooring reclaimed from an old barn in Columbia County, the hand-rubbed-maple bar.

Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

The wind was already veering in this direction at last April's Milan Furniture Fair, where the young Dutch firm Studio Job presented 24 cast-bronze farm objects, including a pail, shovel and pitchfork, and a line of stout Bavarian farm furniture laser-cut with colorful images of pigs, chickens, cows and sheep, all displayed in a stylized barnyard.

Betting It All on the Farm 2009

Serious shoppers can consider Studio Job's $184,000 Robber Baron cabinet, a 1,900-pound cast-bronze piece that the design firm is producing in a quantity of five, and Dutch designer Hella Jongerius's Backpack Sofa, a hybrid sofa-storage unit produced in an edition of eight that starts at about $51,000.

And Now, the Limited-Edition Hammock 2007

Sabaean artifacts: a cast-bronze head from the second century A.D. and an alabaster incense burner with the image of a rider and camel from the third century A.D.

Museums: Treasures from Saba 2005

Though mostly devoted to Han burials, "Brilliant Artifacts" also includes a few archaeological finds from earlier eras that are historically important, including imperial edicts unifying the Chinese empire during the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) found on a cast-bronze plaque and a ceramic measure, and texts imprinted on bamboo strips from The Art of War by Sunzi, China's greatest military strategist and another Shandong native.

Museums: A Brilliant Afterlife 2005

The sculpture is especially remarkable, as seen in a classically inspired second-century A.D. cast-bronze head and a sixth-century B.C. cast-bronze altar on which rows of sphinxes visually echo the dedicatory inscription in stylized Sabaean letters above them.

Museums: Treasures from Saba 2005

In the drawing-room, for instance, we had a fairly decent china lamp, and on the wall hung a large and splendid engraving of the Sistine Madonna; facing it on the other wall was an immense and expensive photograph of the cast-bronze gates of the cathedral of Florence.

A Raw Youth 2003