Laurie Price: Reflections on the First Term
Sitting at my very own desk, scarred with an assortment of scratches and scrapes my predecessors have inflicted on their way to becoming professional conservators of metalwork and there I was, a novice in the conservation industry fresh from university. I never had my own workspace before so I was already excited and I even … Read more
Nighttime Detective Work: LVG Watermark
This 18th century LVG watermark, characterized by those initials under a fleur-de-lys bearing a crown, was inspired by that of the Dutch Lubertus Van Gerrevink, who began using it in the late 1600s and trademarked it in 1726. Apparently that didn’t stop many papermakers from copying it: by then a sign of high-quality paper, throughout the … Read more
Meissen Pierced Dish: An Assembling Challenge
Two hard paste porcelain pierced dishes with over glaze enamel and gilding decoration broken in numerous fragments of very different sizes and shapes came to our hands all together in the same box. A small plastic bag containing a quantity of very small fragments was also in the same cardboard container—the challenge was set! The blue … Read more
