Object:
Delftware ‘Herring plate’
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Object: A series of Chinese blue and white porcelain plates.
Condition: the plate shown in the pictures had some breaks and some very discoloured old glue
Suggested treatment: themplate has only been cleaned and bonded. My advise to the owners was to keep it simple, the plate did not need any fills or retouching.
The object before treatment
Condition: the plate was very dirty, all around the edges the missing chips due to fritting ( a common form of degradation in Delftware) were very dark with dirt-buildups. Also; the tail of the fish was gone and some old restorations in the same area had yellowed.
Suggested treatment: all parts were cleaned before a fill of the tail was made. The fill was retouched so that it gave a natural look to the whole. For the plate’s future setting the restorations did not need to be invisible but neither did we want the restoration to draw any unwanted attention.
The tail after treatment
The object after treatment