Examples of restoration & gilding works
Example
Conservation and Restoration of an Icon
Description of Object:
| Object: | Russian Icon |
| Artist: | "Andrej Rukomitschew" |
| Place: | "City of Starodoub" |
| Date: | "1911 Year, 31, January" |
| Medium: | Carrier material; softwood |
| Exposed Surface: | Oil paint on chalk ground, bole gilded on engraved and punched chalk ground, dark red bole |
| Demensions: | 31.8 cm x 63.4 cm |
| Owner: | private |
Full view, condition before restoration: Damage to finish from moisture in the gilded areas, damaged areas and scratches in the painted surface.
Detailed view, lower right, restoration in progress: detached strips of linen, uneven blistered and raised paint surface.
Detailed view, lower right, restoration in progress: gilded, polished and abraded. Restored and preserved original areas, restorative retouching of the painting.
Full view, restoration in progress: Missing areas primed to original surface level.
Final Condition
Example
Conservation and Restoration of an Octagonal Picture Frame with Two Circular Sections
Description of Object:
| Object: | Octagonal picture frame with two circular sections |
| Workshop: | unknown |
| Date: | 19th Century |
| Medium: | Carrier material, pine with some oak Leaf ornamentation carved in oak |
| Visible painted surface: | Mainly oil gilding on ochre ground, light toning |
| Dimensions: | 58,0 cm x 41,0 cm |
| Owner: | private |
Detail showing condition before restoration: lost areas of exposed surface, partially covered over in bronze, missing leaf ornamentation, expansion cracks in the wood.
Restoration in progress: consolidated painted surface, damaged areas puttied, leaf ornamentation replaced, expansion cracks filled in with putty.
Total view, final condition: gilded and toned sections, surface cleaning.
Detail, final condition: restored and gilded leaf ornamentation
Example
Conservation and Restoration of a Picture Clock
Description of Object:
| Object: | Picture Clock |
| Maker: | Johann Jacob Schmidt, *4.9.1770 in Durlach, † 28.6.1846 in Karlsruhe, Court Clockmaker in Karlsruhe since 1794. |
| Workshop / Picture Frame: | unknown |
| Date: | early 19th Century |
| Medium: | On pinewood, primed Palmettes & rais-de-coeur in white compo |
| Visible surface: | gilded and polished fascia over brown-black bole, ornamentation and scotia in matte gilded bole over ochre, Rear coated with ochre distemper |
| Dimensions: | 56.7 cm x 40.5 cm x 12.2 cm |
| Owner: | private |
Illustration above: Full view, condition before restoration, visible damage to painted surface
Illustration above, detail, restoration in progress: puttied and prepared damaged areas, painted surface consolidated
Illustration above, detail, restoration in progress: replaced ornamentation
Illustration above, total view, final condition: damaged areas closed, gilded & toned, surface cleaning
Illustration above, detail, restoration in progress: gilded & toned replaced ornamentation
Example
Documentation of the Conservation and Restoration of a Green Polychromed Small Table
Description of Object:
| Object: | Table |
| Workshop: | unknown |
| Date: | 18th Century |
| Technique: | Material oak, painted surface of table frame: chalk ground. Visible surface in green tempera, applications on the front and two sides of the small table of white comp, gilding on red bole; the longitudinal rear side with no applications, paint layer with no ground coat applied, glazing directly on oak |
| Visible surface of table: | Chalk ground, marbling in oil paint, varnish finish. |
| Dimensions: | 75.0 x 62.5 x 79.0 cm |
| Owner: | private |
Full view, condition before restoration: missing ornamentation, damage to the ground and paint layer.
Detailed view, condition before restoration: missing ornamentation, damaged areas in the gilded sections and painted surface. Visible: the original polychrome surface of the little table: turquoise green
Full view, condition before restoration: surface with tectate protrusions, damage in paint surface, water stains.
Detailed view, condition before restoration: damaged areas in the marbled paint surface
Full view, final condition: re-attachment of loose areas of paint, puttied to original level, paint retouching.
Full view, final condition: replaced ornamentation using white compo, damaged areas repaired with putty, bole gilded and toned, paint retouching, surface cleaning
Example
Conservation and Restoration of a Sculpture "Saint Leonhard" (?)
Description of Object:
| Object: | Wooden sculpture of "Saint Leonhard"? Socket (later addition) |
| Worshop: | unknown, probably South Germany |
| Date: | 18th Century |
| Medium: | Sculpture: lime wood, carved and polychromed, bonding agent oil. Base: Pine, applications, polychromed and gilded white compo. |
Demensions: | Sculpture approx. 96.0 cm high; Socket approx. 44.0 cm high. |
Sculpture before restoration
Sculpture before restoration 02
after restoration
Example
Reconstruction of the Organ Front of the Hagelstein Organ, St-Georgs-Kirche, Gartow, Lüchow-Dannenberg
Description of Object:
Reconstruction of the organ front in cooperation with the restoration workshop of the Museumverbund Lüchow-Dannenberg, Director Ulla Tinius.
The Lübeck organ builder Hans Hantelmann began the construction of the organ but died in 1735 before it was completed. As of 1735 the work on the organ was continued by Johann-Matthias Hagelstein and completed in 1740.
Reconstruction of the organ front
Example
Reconstruction of the Organ Front of the Hagelstein Organ, St-Georgs-Kirche, Gartow, Lüchow-Dannenberg
Description of Object:
Architectural gilding: oil gilded rosettes on the balcony railings, residential and commercial building, Kurfürstendamm 59/60, Berlin
Architectural gilding
