Antiquaire au Luxembourg

You expect that your broken objects recover their genuine appearance (so called authentic restoration). The restoration must be invisible in order to bring back the objet at its commercial or sentimental value.

It has to be emphasized that the exhibited objects in a museum received another kind of restoration so called archeological facing other scientifical concerns

Problems:

	Cracking
	Breaks
	Bare patches (finger, petals, handle)

Causes:

	Wear
	accident
	movings
	Indiscriminate previous restorations

Case Nr 4 : Steps of restoration of two fine earthenware:

1. Cleaning:
As long as it remains traces from old glue or stains, it is absolutely useless to consider any sticking. The cleaning requires extreme care and has to be done by a professional restorer. This is the absolute condition to make sure that the pieces will engage and well recover their genuine position.

2. Gluing:
First of all, the restorer of l'Atelier Anne Marie Frere makes sure that all pieces perfectly fit. Then the sticking requires an absolute self assurance in order to avoid projections.

3. Lacking pieces:
The restorer must be able to recreate any lacking piece.
An ideal reconstruction will be realised by molding of a genuine element.

4. Filling in
The irreparably disappeared splinters has to be fill in. These filling in must be perfectly sanded until the surface becomes as smooth as the genuine ceramic.However the sanding my not scratch the original enamel around the repair.

5. Glaze:
The restorer has to imitate the original glaze of the ceramic but has to avoid as much as possible that his varnish spread out beyond each filling in. To be invisible, the new varnish must have precisely the same tone as well as imperceptibly go from the restored zone to the genuine surface..

6. Repainting:
The restorer of L'Atelier Anne Marie Frère repaints with adequate brushes and with a light touch the ornamentation which has been interrupted by the join of the repair. To imitate the style and the palette of the original decoration is a real challenge.