Been a while....

Greetings all. Yes, I know it's been a while but the restoration world around me has gone bonkers. I'm extremely happy (yet stressed) that everyone on the planet has had their clumsy pills. Anyways, have some photos of the recent works I have been doing, they range from Antiquities through to the 1960's.

Enjoy (there will be brief descriptions attached to each photo)

Greek Kylix (smashed handle)

Satsuma export ware from about 1920

African ebony sculpure that fell down some stairs and ended up in 15 pieces

Shiwan scholar getting a new earlobe and some new fingers

A hideous Deco chalkware lamp

Another Shiwan scholar, the base was smashed into, well, dust.

A Ushabti 200BC. Cleaned and stabilised, made the stand as well.

Thanks for dropping by and having a look at a few of the things that I've been up to. I would post more photos but I have to go off to work on that Ming bowl, 2 Sung dynasty vases, a Meiji censor, a Meiji butsodan, this that and the other.....

Some photos of current work.

Once again, it has been raining antiques. This is a good thing but rather bad when comes to wriring about said antiques, Apologies again.

Here's some photos for you with a few words....

Art Deco bronze by Pierre Le Faguays, Susse Foundry, 1925.

The Art Deco bronze sculpture had her bow snapped off and needed to be reattached without harming the patina and verdigris. I drilled out the corroded core supports, added stainless steel pins that were fixed with two part marine epoxy. I'm pretty happy with the result.

Finished restoration.

The bronze censor lid with the Shishi dog was missing an ear, so thus I had to make one. It was pretty difficult tweaking the metal paints to get the final bronze effect. Adding the verdigris was a pain as well.

Bronze Shishi censor lid. General shaping for the ear before shaping and carving.

Finished ear. I later tweaked the patina a bit more but forgot to take some photo.

Here's some Meiji and Edo period plates and chargers that I have to repair all the chips, knicks and general wear and tear from the past 200 years or so, 14 of them...

The current bane of my life.

Massive Shiwan piece that needed some cosmetic repairs (below). General clean and a few repairs to the hair band, fingernails and toenails. Beautiful piece that was a pleasure to work on

Shiwan statue, 30 kgs and roughly a meter in height.

And finally, for now, a photo of a happily filled work studio. Thanks again for dropping by, hope you enjoyed the looksee....

A few photos of recent restorations.

Greetings all. Sorry for the lack of any posts for a while, I have been busy with a multitude of things. Life has a habit of getting in the way.

Now, for your viewing enjoyment a few photos of recent restorations that I have worked upon in the past month or so.....

Finished Shiwan piece with a few new fingers and a hand carved, lacquered base

I'm finding that the more I work upon Shiwan pottery and figurines the more I fall in love with the work. Very emotive works that people should really look more into.

This guy was recently picked up at Camberwell Markets here in Melbourne, Australia. I felt sorry for the little guy because he had no arm. I took it upon myself to help with said matter....

Shiwan porcelain figurine, before.  

doing a mock up with blue tac to see what I could do.

Anyways, you will have to wait because my blog is being weird and not allowing me to upload anymore photos currently, stay tuned....

Shiwan, subtle differences.

Greetings all. I know I have been on a bit of a Shiwan pottery discussion of late but I like them and they are many. These following photos are some more work for Mr David Johnston, they are more subtle restorations coinciding with the owners directions. Once again I hope you are enjoying these as much as I am.

The photo on the left is the before shot and you can see on his left wrist is a discolouration from ageing. It was a matte area that seems to have absorbed material over the years.

Left, the after photo.

Right, the before photo showing some over glaze and some micro cracks around the thumb and index finger. The thumb had pieces missing which I had to remake.

                                                       The after photo.