More photos of recent works.

May as well use this lunch break productively. Here are some more photos of recently restored pieces.

Enjoy. (read captions for further details of the pieces)

Japanese lacquer dresser (meiji period). Lacquerware stabilised and repolished

Japanese meiji okimono. Restoration in progress.

Satsuma export ware (1920's), very obviously broken to some extent.

Chinese cloisonné stool. In its lifetime someone thought it would be a good thing to repolish it with an angle grinder
so thus I had to restore the patina.

Sung dynasty bowl that the owner promptly dropped. He wanted me to do a kintsugi repair,
so thus, I did. 22 karat filling with urushi.

As usual, thanks for dropping by to have a looksee. Have a grand time til the next post.

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.....

New Studio

Hello all and sundry, hope everything is going well and dandy for you all. As you can guess from the title, I have a new, larger, studio. It's awesome. Polished floorboards and the works, new stuff galore and enjoying it immensely. Finally feeling like an established studio.

I have been extremely busy of late, hence the lack of posts, but I will try and make up for it in the next few months. Considering my computer is in my studio now I may even try to figure out how to do a live feed from here... could be interesting.

Anyways, have some photos of recent stuff....

Bohemian porcelain basket, somewhat damaged. (before)

Porcelain Basket drying (after)

I have been working on a lot of private collections that predominantly deal with antiquities, sadly I am not allowed to photograph them to display publicly, but when I do get another chance to do so, I will.

Porcelain Candleabra that was dropped (before)

Porcelain Candleabra finished (after)

Thank you all from dropping by and having a looksee. Feel free to comment or to drop me a line via gmail.

Cahl.