​Bethan Tector
Conservation & Restoration
Ceramics
Famille Rose Plate - 18th Century
Floral Cake Plate -
19th Century
Leeds Pottery Pierced Creamware -
18th Century
Before Treatment
After Treatment
Before and After Treatment
A plaster fill and rivets were removed, the plate was then cleaned and the break edges were bleached. The sherds were then adhered with an epoxy resin, and areas of loss were filled and retouched.
Once previous repairs were removed 79 sherds of the pierced work were reconstructed using pins on a plastazote form, they were then adhered with Paraloid B72. Areas of loss were filled with bulked epoxy resin, which was partially cured and modelled to shape. Areas of loss were then retouched.
Before Treatment
After Treatment
The cake plate was steam cleaned, and the handle was recreated in a two part mould, cast in tinted and bulked epoxy resin. Detail was added with fine oil gilding.
Famille Rose Bowl -
18th Century
The bowl had undergone impact damage to the rim, which was consequently in several pieces. It was cleaned, the break edges were bleached. It was then adhered with Araldite 20/20 and any losses were filled with bulked and tinted Araldite 20/20. Finally it was retouch with acrylics.
Before and After Treatment