Highlights in this issue
Dating Alhambra stuccoes
Lucia Burgio, Object Analysis Scientist, Science Conservation
The analysis of pigments and materials found on these stucco panels from the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, gave sufficient clues to hypothesise that one of the panels was not from the 14th century, as originally thought.
Conservation of Houghton Hall textiles and furniture
Sandra Smith, Head of Conservation
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, was built and furnished in 1722-1735 for Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister, by the innovative and leading designer William Kent.
Funding a collaborative conservation project: the Mazarin Chest
Shayne Rivers, Senior Furniture Conservator
The Mazarin Chest (412-1882) is an extraordinary object of major cross-cultural significance, renowned as one of the finest pieces of Japanese export lacquer to have survived from the late 1630's
The Safavid Cope
Marion Kite, Senior Textile Conservator
An opportunity for materials analysis on a silk knotted-pile cope, one of the most important examples of Safavid (empire: 1502-1736) pile-weaving of the 17th century.
Spring 2005 Issue 49
- Editorial
- Dating Alhambra stuccoes
- Conservation of Houghton Hall textiles and furniture
- Funding a collaborative conservation project: the Mazarin Chest
- The Safavid Cope
- The Ardabil Carpet - a new perspective
- Encounters with paper conservation: the treatment of a Chinese painted silk dress
- An insight into the craftsman's techniques
- William Blake's only surviving palette?
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