Editing Sculpture (section)

===Glass===
[[File:Chihuly at Kew Gardens 031.jpg|thumb|[[Dale Chihuly]], 2006, ([[Blown glass]])]]
[[File:Wood Bodhisattva.jpg|thumb|A carved wooden [[Bodhisattva]] from China's [[Song dynasty]] 960–1279, [[Shanghai Museum]]]]
[[Glass]] may be used for sculpture through a wide range of working techniques, though the use of it for large works is a recent development. It can be carved, though with considerable difficulty; the Roman [[Lycurgus Cup]] is all but unique.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/t/the_lycurgus_cup.aspx| title = British Museum – The Lycurgus Cup.| access-date = June 15, 2017| archive-date = November 4, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151104233439/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/t/the_lycurgus_cup.aspx| url-status = live}}</ref>  There are various ways of [[Early American molded glass|moulding glass]]: hot casting can be done by ladling molten glass into moulds that have been created by pressing shapes into sand, carved graphite or detailed plaster/silica moulds. Kiln casting glass involves heating chunks of glass in a kiln until they are liquid and flow into a waiting mould below it in the kiln.  Hot glass can also [[glassblowing|be blown]] and/or hot sculpted with hand tools either as a solid mass or as part of a blown object. More recent techniques involve chiseling and bonding plate glass with polymer silicates and UV light.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Arthur|title=The Sculpture Reference Illustrated|date=2005|location=Gulfport, MS|isbn=978-0-9755383-0-2|page=179}}</ref>