scagliola

Plasterwork in imitation of ornamental marble, consisting of ground gypsum and glue colored with marble or granite dust.

In architecture, an Italian process for imitating stone, used for enriching columns and internal walls of buildings.

An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

Plasterwork imitating marble, granite, etc..