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===Fountains and doors=== [[File:United States Supreme Court Building Front Door photo Don Ramey Logan.jpg|thumb|right|[[United States Supreme Court Building|US Supreme Court Building's massive bronze doors]] by Gilbert Donnelly Sr. and his son John Donnelly Jr.]]The largest and most ornate bronze fountain known to be cast in the world was by the [[Roman Bronze Works]] and [[General Bronze Corporation]] in 1952. The material used for the fountain, known as statuary bronze, is a [[alloy|quaternary alloy]] made of copper, zinc, tin, and lead, and traditionally golden brown in color. This was made for the [[Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain]] in [[Federal Triangle]] in Washington, DC.<ref name="Anrew Mellon fountain">{{cite web |title=Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain Restored by National Gallery of Art in Honor of 75th Anniversary with a Major Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation —Monumental Bronze Fountain Operational on March 17— |url=https://www.nga.gov/press/2016/fountain.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=23 December 2023 |location=Washington, DC |quote=Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain, situated at the apex of the Federal Triangle complex in downtown Washington, DC}}</ref> Another example of the massive, ornate design projects of bronze, and attributed to General Bronze/Roman Bronze Works were the massive bronze doors to the [[United States Supreme Court Building]] in Washington, DC.<ref name="Supreme Court Bronze Doors">{{cite web |title=The Bronze Doors |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/bronzedoors_5-7-2018_final.pdf |website=Supreme Court |publisher=The Supreme Court |access-date=23 December 2023 |location=Washington, DC |language=English |quote="Out of all of our monumental projects, spread over two lifetimes, the Supreme Court doors are the only work that we ever signed – that's how important they were." – JOHN DONNELLY, JR., Sculptor}}</ref>
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