BEFORE  TREATMENT

AFTER TREATMENT

This beautiful handmade ceramic was SOOO THIN!  That was even translucent!  This effect is achieved by using translucent clay. This clay  is basically polymer clay without the color added. Though no clay currently available is completely clear or transparent, translucent clay allows some light (and color) to pass through it, particluarly if it is used in very thin sheets like this one!

It had a previous repair, so I cleaned and removed adhesive residues before re-adhering it with Acryloid B-72.  I finished the process with filling of the join gaps, and color integration with GOLDEN PVA paints. 

Four Owls Vase _ Ceramic Restoration

 

Ceramic Restoration. Tiles by artist Guillermo Granizo

Before Treatment

Treatment Process

Final Results

           

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Balancing head and body: restoring a green Buddha figure.

Recently, one of my long term clients brought me a very precious piece: a Buddha figure that she acquired for her shrine. She just "fell in love" with this statue because she felt a special connection with its irregularities and the "traces" of time reflected on its surface. However, she din't want to have a "decapitated" Buddha on top of her altar!...and that's when she contacted me.

She requested a minor treatment, specifically to re-attach the head and the body, and then to stabilize the Statue. She did not want the corrosion to be removed or minimized...she didn't even want the surface to be cleaned!  So the treatment aimed at solving the major damage and the cleaning was reduced to simple dust removal.
The first stage of the treatment was to rejoin the two pieces and then complete some of the missing areas around the neck.
The fillings and in-painting were intended to be completely merged  with the original, by using a very delicate rigattino (in-painting with little color dots). Although imperceptible at a distance, a closer view will reveal the work done.

And this is how her special Buddha figure came out: ready to sit on top of the shrine!

  

Restoration treatment on a ceramic by Antonio Prieto.

About Antonio Prieto:

Antonio Prieto with his wife Eunice Prieto, also a ceramist artist.
http://www.myteabowls.com/Pages/PotterPage.aspx?Potter=249

"Antonio Prieto (1912-1967) was a ceramist artist and teacher in the 1940's through the 1960's. He taught ceramics at the California College of Art Crafts (now the California College of Art) but is best remembered for his influencial tenure at Oakland's Mills College, which lasted from 1950 until his death in 1967."

http://whatsitworth.michaans.com/?p=582

 More about Mills College Art Museum:

http://mcam.mills.edu/