Photomicrograph under cross-polarized transmitted light of a thin section of the casting core showing its characteristic grain size distribution (see fig. 525, core recipe 2). Ponce Jacquiot (French, 1515–1571), Temperance, Henri II and Catherine of Medici Funerary Monument, 1567, H. 187 cm (Saint-Denis Basilica, France). See Castelle, Manon, Yvan Coquinot, and David Bourgarit. 2016. “Casting Cores of French Bronze Statues of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Identification of Regional Practices and Artistic Choices.” Microchemical Journal 126:121–31..