Craftsmen Casting Bronze Bell

Molten bronze pours in a bright orange stream from a tilted crucible into a stone mold, lit by the glow of a brick furnace behind it. Two men strain against a wooden crane arm to angle the heavy cauldron while others steady the mold with iron rods. Boys in patterned vests polish and inspect finished bells nearby, one already gleaming green-gold on a workbench to the right. Tools hang in neat rows along the brick walls, and a second crucible glows in the foreground, still pouring its own stream of liquid metal. Further back, workers gather around another mold and a finished bell waits suspended from a wooden frame. Sparks and heat seem to hang in the air around the glowing metal, and each bell in the room marks its own stage of the same long process.