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Ornamental gold mounts. The primary responsibility of a mount maker is to provide safe and stable structural supports (also called mounts, brackets, or armatures) for a wide variety of cultural materials such as furniture, ceramics, paintings, sculptures, clothing, jewelry, aircraft, and machinery to be placed in storage, transported to another location, or for exhibition.
A key preventative measure in conservation is surveying the environment and making a risk assessment of the biggest threats to the collection. The environment ranges from the storage container, storage room, the building, what is outside the building, the surrounding businesses and landscape, the climate and geography, and the year round ...
The ideal storage and display environment is oxygen-free, as oxygen prevalence has been shown to react with collagen over time, leading to increased brittleness of parchment. Oxygen-free storage and display cases are filled with inert gas as well as a chemical substance that reacts as an absorber if any stray oxygen leaks into the encasement. [13]
The Holtzapffel dynasty of tool and lathe makers was founded in Long Acre, London by a Strasbourg-born turner, Jean-Jacques Holtzapffel, [1] in 1794. The firm specialized in lathes for ornamental turning but also made a name for its high-quality edge and boring tools.
Wall Street's main indexes slipped on Tuesday, weighed down by technology stocks after a batch of upbeat economic data stoked uncertainty among investors about the pace of monetary policy easing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the short ...
Objects conservator Laura Kubick examines an artwork at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.. An Objects conservator is a professional, working in a museum setting or private practice, that specializes in the conservation of three-dimensional works.
A 6-year-old girl allegedly told police Dakota Hays would throw the 2-year-old into the water and that “she would have to go retrieve him from the bottom of the pool"