Month: March 2017
Posted by namitajaspal Posted on March 15, 2017 0 Comments on Case study of a silver gilded artifact
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A beautiful piece of silver gilded artifact depicting a war scene came to our lab in 2007. It was previously wrongly restored by applying a thick layer of silver acrylic colour to hide the faults. Our first step was to…
Posted by namitajaspal Posted on March 8, 2017 0 Comments on One of the cleaning treatments of an oil on canvas painting: step by step approach
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Cleaning seems a simple process and i have seen people in charge of historically important collections doing disastrous actions leading to irreversible damage of important art or history objects. It might apparently be a simple cleaning job, but it is…