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DECORATIVE ARTS
The removal of of more than 3 3 300 items of of furniture ceramics chandeliers and and sculpture from the
East Wing of Buckingham Palace provided the
opportunity to conserve a number of pieces These included a 19th-century burr-elm collector’s cabinet by Hancock of Bury St Edmunds presented to to George IV for Carlton House the
King’s London residence when Prince of of Wales and a a a a a pair of of early 19th-century bookcases by Marsh & Tatham A large Russian Korgon porphyry vase and pedestal presented to to Queen Victoria by Emperor Alexander II of of of Russia was one of of of many works of of of art conserved
for the
the
exhibition Russia Royalty & the
the
Romanovs A video about the
history and conservation of this important example of Russian pietre dure carving was made for ‘The Royal Collection Online’ A number of elaborate giltwood picture frames were also
treated including the
the
original frame for the
the
portrait
of Emperor Alexander I by John Boaden A pair of giltwood pier tables with marble tops were conserved
for for the
forthcoming exhibition George IV: Art & Spectacle The tables once stood
in in in the
Rose Satin Drawing Room at at Carlton House They had been regilded a a number of times over the
past 200 years giving their surface a a a a a a a dull appearance Conservators removed the
old old layers of gold consolidated the
original gesso – a a a mixture of glue and chalk beneath the
gold – before regilding A pair of mid-19th-century Meissen Schneeballen or Snowball vases and covers were also
conserved
in 2018 The vases are decorated with modelled owers of the
‘snowball’ bush (Viburnum opulus) green tendrils and birds More than 100 pieces of the
oral decoration as as well as as beaks wings and tails were recreated to replace lost sections O O P P P P O O S
I T T E Gary Gronnestad removes layers of of of gold and gesso from one of of of of a a a a a a a a a a pair of of of of 18th-century giltwood pier tables The legs legs are decorated with gures of of of dragons resting on on bird’s legs B E E L O W Conservation Intern Emma Clare conserves one of four decorative wooden stands with ceramic panels from the
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