Due to the fragility of scagliola, which is rarely used for outdoor sculpture, the sculpture resides on a covered platform.
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The gallery is 42 meters long; the walls are covered with chrysoprase green scagliola; ornaments, benches and corbels are gilded.
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The building contains the original Pump, made of marble and scagliola, to which the waters are today fed by electric pumping.
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From the foyer, the visitor entered the two story top lit entrance hall that was decorated with Ionic columns of yellow marble scagliola.
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In addition, White employed " faux " marble scagliola columns, coffered ceilings and stairs and skylights made of cast iron.
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Scagliola columns were painted blue, wood and marble floors were covered with linoleum, and the grand staircase was replaced with an elevator.
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The material may be veined with colors and applied to a core, or desired pattern may be carved into a previously prepared scagliola matrix.
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Scagliola, which dates back to the 17th century or earlier, is a form of plastering which imitates marble, or other fine stone.
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Their renovations to the property, obliterated such features as the varied-hued scagliola walls in the " Italian Salon " under buckets of white paint.
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Inside is a large entrance hall with scagliola columns and an imperial staircase which accesses the council chamber and mayor's parlour on the first floor.
