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in 1672, when the head was already two thousand years old, one of the grandest of the medicis had the horse's topknot made into a water spout ... and so the whole thing then got covered in an accumulation of limescale, inside and out ... and then later on, somebody hacked off the limescale with a chisel, you can see the marks all over, especially around the horse's nostrils ... etc etc
https://www.getty.edu/publications/artistryinbronze/conservation-and-analysis/39-salvioli/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDV3SpsW08Q&t=1854s
