This book brings together all the useful knowledge for collectors and professionals, from the antique dealer to the conservator-restorer. It is also the work that completes studies in the history of fire arts and techniques. The notion of expertise, which refers to the knowledge acquired through confrontation with objects, implies a real investigation into the technical means of an era, its aesthetic aspirations, its inventions and its borrowings from which relationships arise. between authentic works, copies, fakes and counterfeits. The first section of the book presents a broad synthesis on ceramics, describing all the technical developments that have led to the emergence of styles, fashions and plastic research. Great importance is given to the study of the vocabulary of shapes and multiple decorations, all reproduced in numerous plates describing by precise drawings the profile of the vases, the outline of the plates and the immense variety of ornamental, floral motifs. or symbolic. As for the Conservation-restoration techniques section, it explains the stakes of the conservation or interventionist phases, from the removal of staples to the pictorial reintegration, from epoxy putties to the most delicate polyurethane glazes. The interventions are detailed step by step, from molding to collages, from the execution of traditional repaints to the recent “Stratype” process. Directories allow the reader to know the laboratory products essential in a workshop - solvents, glues, putties, pigments, binders and varnishes - as well as manual or mechanical tools, such as the airbrush.

• Isbn
• Ean 9782878441253
• Author Jacques Peiffer
• Editor Faton
• Language fr_CH