Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points is a sculpture by Henry Moore, catalogued as LH 606, and created in 1969–70. It was a bronze edition of 7; the artist's copy ("0/7") is in Kew Gardens in London, loaned by the Henry Moore Foundation another in the Hofgarten, Düsseldorf (illustrated), and one at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. The plaster model is at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2008, an example traveled to the New York Botanical Garden, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. Among Moore's post war abstract bronzes, it is a part of
Bronze and brass ornamental work were doubtless votive figures, others were images in domestic shrines, and some were certainly ornaments. Among the cult-idols are the dancing Lares, who carry cornucopias and libation-bowls. The little Heracles that Lysippus made for Alexander was a table-ornament ("epitrapezios"): he was reclining on the lion's skin, his club in one hand, a wine-cup in the other. With the invention of hollow casting bronze became the most important medium of monumental sculpture, largely because of its strength and lightness, which admitted poses that would not be possible in stone. But the value of the metal in later ages has involved the