Alabaster Artwork

Alabaster artwork pieces have double toughness compared to marble. Bidsquare offers a collection of alabaster artwork for sale that can complement any interiors as decorative arts. Due to its softness, Alabaster is easily sculpted into intricate shapes, allowing it to be a desirable medium for artwork. The material was widely used by Medieval and Renaissance sculptors to carve statues and icons due to its similarity with marble. Nowadays, alabaster is widely used as an important material for home decor products. 

Alabaster is a finely grained type of gypsum that is like marble, softer and white. It's also commonly utilized for decorative stonework; however, its water-soluble nature makes it appropriate for inside use only. Alabaster is a soft, translucent, and porous material that is utilized for sculpting. Although the finest alabaster is a snowy white substance with small, consistent grain, it is sometimes linked with an oxide of iron, which results in brownish clouding and lining in the rock. It has been used as a decorative item, particularly for church ornamentation and stair railing, and hallways.

Alabaster Artwork Auction

Bidsquare holds online auctions in fine antique and vintage alabaster artwork masterpieces throughout the year to an international audience of collectors and dealers. Antique alabaster artwork contains alabaster that is dyed to create various colors or tints using a centuries-old method. Alabaster is extracted and then marketed to alabaster manufacturers in chunks. It is squared and treated using various processes, such as turning on a lathe to make circular forms, carving into three-dimensional alabaster artworks, chiseling to make low-intensity forms of ornamentation, and applying an intricate finishing that shows its clarity, color, and texture. 

The Antique and vintage alabaster artwork for sale are submerged in a pool of water which is progressively heated nearly to the boiling temperature to reduce the translucency of the rock. It is submerged and heated to create opacity reminiscent of real marble. The procedure needs special attention because if the heat isn't cautiously controlled the alabaster will melt. Bidsquare has consistently outperformed its vintage alabaster artwork auction sale, breaking records for sculpture masterpieces with noble provenances.

Quick Facts on Alabaster Artworks: 

• Purest alabaster has a fine uniform grain and is of snow-white color, but after the addition of iron oxide to it, the material takes a brown clouding and veining. 
• Alabaster applies to two different minerals – Gypsum of the present day and calcite of the ancients.