Collaboration, Conservation and Research Furniture from the Great Gallery
Collaboration, Conservation and Research Furniture from the Great Gallery
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Collaboration, Conservation and Research Furniture from the Great Gallery
Price: Admission FreePrice: Admission FreeTwo pairs of monumental tables have been on display in the Great Gallery for more than a century. The recent Great Gallery refurbishment project provided the perfect opportunity for all four tables to undergo full cleaning and conservation treatment. To address the treatment needs of the tables, the Wallace Collection teamed up with Bucks New University, City and Guilds of London Art School and West Dean College and several students undertook the work as an integral part of their degree course. Now, some two years later, the tables have returned from treatment and look stunning in their former locations, much as they would have looked in Sir Richard Wallace’s day.During the course of their treatment conservators and curators were able to analyse the tables forensically, discovering, for example, that the two in the centre of the gallery (F510-511) are not in fact a pair… one is a later copy of the other. To learn more about our new findings, as well as the techniques which the students used in their conservation work on these and the pair of pier tables (F514-515), come and visit the display now showing in the Conservation Gallery at the Wallace Collection. Display talks will take place on 13 January, 10 February, 20 March and 30 April at 1pm.
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Collaboration, Conservation and Research Furniture from the Great GalleryThe Wallace Collection Main address:
The Wallace CollectionWells Fargo CenterManchester SquareW1U 3BNLondon, United kingdomThe Wallace CollectionWells Fargo CenterManchester SquareW1U 3BNLondon, United kingdomPrice: Admission FreePrice: Admission FreeTwo pairs of monumental tables have been on display in the Great Gallery for more than a century. The recent Great Gallery refurbishment project provided the perfect opportunity for all four tables to undergo full cleaning and conservation treatment. To address the treatment needs of the tables, the Wallace Collection teamed up with Bucks New University, City and Guilds of London Art School and West Dean College and several students undertook the work as an integral part of their degree course. Now, some two years later, the tables have returned from treatment and look stunning in their former locations, much as they would have looked in Sir Richard Wallace’s day.During the course of their treatment conservators and curators were able to analyse the tables forensically, discovering, for example, that the two in the centre of the gallery (F510-511) are not in fact a pair… one is a later copy of the other. To learn more about our new findings, as well as the techniques which the students used in their conservation work on these and the pair of pier tables (F514-515), come and visit the display now showing in the Conservation Gallery at the Wallace Collection. Display talks will take place on 13 January, 10 February, 20 March and 30 April at 1pm. Book tickets
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