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What are ornamental brasses?

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Brass, a copper-zinc alloy produced since imperial Roman times, is closely associated in art with bronze, a copper-tin alloy (see bronze sculpture ). Brass was generally fashioned into utilitarian objects such as bowls, pots, and jugs.

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