Sculpture and Decorative Arts Conservation Services LLC

Ceramics and glass, when made well, can last centuries.  Their most common problem is breakage.

The object above is of a low-fired clay, more vulnerable to disintegration than a high-fired ceramic or porcelain.  

The sculpture was pieced together fragment by fragment to make sure none was locked out.  After determining the sequence for repair, each piece was glued to its neighbor in the right order to make small sections larger.  Finally, it was possible to bring the large sections together to make the whole.  Gaps were filled with a water-soluble filler and inpainted with acrylic emulsion, light-stable, permanent paints to match the surrounding areas.