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Ancient Pottery Vessel Restoration

antique clay vessel glued
The owners of this vessel understood it to be a rare ancient Etruscan vase with strong historical value. Though it is not typically done for historic pieces, they requested a seamless repair.

The vase was broken into many pieces, a large segment of the rim was missing, and it had old repairs that needed to be redone. In addition, simply painting to conceal the repair lines was not suitable if we were to insure the preservation of as much as possible of the original surface, therefore we had to implement a staining technique.

To apply staining with effective color and sheen matching, after cementing all the pieces, we used a tinted filler, mixing the filler with natural pigments, that had the same porosity performance as the vase's clay body. Once the filler cured and was sanded, we applied additional staining applications for color and color variation fine tuning to achieve a closer match. Finally, "aging" techniques were used for completion.

The same process is used for Pre-Columbian Indian Pottery and Chinese terracotta vessels / statues restoration.

Ancient pottery broken to many pieces
Very broken ancient vessel
antique clay vessel glued
Antique pot top part cemented
Ancient pottery mending in process
Antique pot bottom part cemented

Inside wall glued
Reenforced walls of antique vessel
Reenforcement coating
Attaching both bottom and top parts
Attached bottom and top parts
fillers mixed with natural pigment to match [ot
Filler and stain tests

Mix natural pigments with filler
Missing rim piece
One piece is missing
missing piece mad out of fired clay
Missing piece made out of clay
filler sanded down
Filler sanded down
light stain for uniformity
Filler stain layering coloring tutorial
antique anciend vessel restored
Completed restoration

How to determine the value and how old is my ancient pottery or sculpture or if it is authentic? Items such as Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Pre-Columbian, Israelite, Roman, Egyptian, Moche and Mayan Pottery, etc. - See link Q&A #3



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