Highlights in this issue
Mahasiddha Virupa: an exploration
Diana Heath, Senior Metals Conservator; Lucia Burgio, Senior Object Analysis Scientist
In 2010 the Museum gained a significant new acquisition intended for display: a seated figure measuring H. 85 cm x W. 62 cm and weighing 80 kilos, seemingly one of the largest surviving works representing Mahasiddha Virupa, the ninth century Indian Buddhist ascetic.
The Alhambra Court fire surround
Fi Jordan, Senior Ceramics Conservator; Mariam Rosser-Owen, Curator, Middle East
The fire surround (C.350-2009), the largest section of the Alhambra Court’s original tile decoration to have survived, arrived in the Museum in a badly damaged condition. The small glazed earthenware tiles were embedded in a variety of hard mortars.
Moving Meleager
Roger Murray, Museum Technician; Sophy Wills, Senior Metals Conservator
Between October 2011 and July 2012, three of the V&A’s Renaissance bronzes by Pier Jacopo Alari-Bonacolsi were lent to Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington followed by the Frick Collection, New York.
Cinderella table
Kerstin Wadewitz, Furniture Conservator
The Victoria and Albert Museum acquired the Cinderella table directly from the designer in 2006 and since then, it has been on open display in Gallery 76 (20th Century). Now, just five years later, the first changes in its condition are visible.
Spring 2012 Issue 60
- Editorial
- Mahasiddha Virupa: an exploration
- Science Section supports the Public Programme
- REMAI: the European Network of Museums of Islamic Art
- Positive Negative
- Cutting character: research into innovative mannequin costume supports in collaboration with the Royal College of Art Rapid Form Department
- The Alhambra Court fire surround
- Moving Meleager
- Utilising skills and creating opportunities
- Preserving intangible integrity
- Re-housing alabasters: an altarpiece framework mount
- Cinderella table
- Bombay Blackwood
- Punch and Bunny: conservation of a pop-up theatre book
- The technical examination and conservation treatment of Portrait of a Lady by Francesco Morandini
- Conservation of a child’s fairy costume
- Conservation 'on a roll'
- Editorial board & Disclaimer