Fired Infills and Replacement Parts to Ceramics in the Rijksmuseum

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  • Isabelle Garachon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.9769

Abstract

There are many objects in historic ceramics collections, like the Rijksmuseum’s, that have replacement parts and infills. Strikingly, the materials and techniques employed to make these repairs in the past were rarely the same as those originally used in manufacturing the object. This was primarily because it is technically very complicated to make additions in ceramics – clay shrinks and expands with each new firing. It also, however, requires specialist knowledge and skills to get the shape, colour and feel of a reconstruction or infill to match the original. There is limited information about this special restoration practice in the literature. This article aims to prompt further research into the technical and historical aspects of ceramic infills and replacements, particularly since they are becoming increasingly accepted as part of the history of the object.

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Author Biography

  • Isabelle Garachon

    Isabelle Garachon studied Archaeology and Conservation and Restoration at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. From 1981 to 1989 she worked at a private restoration workshop in Amsterdam and at the Opleiding Restauratoren in Amsterdam. Since 1989 she has been head of the Rijksmuseum’s Ceramics, Glass and Stone Workshop.

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Published

2017-12-15

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How to Cite

Garachon, Isabelle. 2017. “Fired Infills and Replacement Parts to Ceramics in the Rijksmuseum”. The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 65 (4): 372-85. https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.9769.