Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
35th Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia; April 19 and 20, 2007

Fakes, Forgeries and Fabrications

Compiled by Virginia Greene, Patricia Griffin, and Christine Del Re

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Ann Boulton

Postprints abstracts

• Object lessons: The politics of preservation and museum building in the early 20th century
  Sanchita Balachandran

• From delicious to not quite right: Subtleties in discerning the authenticity of African art
  Stephen Mellor

• Thermoluminescence dating for European sculpture: A consumer’s guide
  Jane Bassett

• Only time will tell: Examination and analysis of an early German watch
  Meg Loew Craft

• Refining the database for white marbles: Isotope analysis of 18th century marble busts by Jean-Antoine Houdon
  Katherine A. Holbrow

• From fake to fabulous: Redeeming fakes at the Walters Art Museum
  Terry Drayman-Weisser

• Altered states: Henri Matisse’s sculpture Aurora
  Ann Boulton

• “Discovering” a Medieval candlestick in the collection of the Walters Art Museum
  Julie A. Lauffenburger

• Faking pre-Columbian artifacts
  Catherine Sease

• Fabricating the body: The anatomical machines of the Prince of Sansevero
  Lucia Dacome and Renata Peters

• 3D scanning of deer stones on the Mongolian steppe
  Harriet F. (Rae) Beaubien and Basiliki Vicky Karas

• A new method for cleaning marble
  Kory Berrett, Virginia Naude and Richard Wolbers

• Treatment of a WPA era topographical map of the state of Louisiana
  Shelley Reisman Paine, James Bernstein, Richard Wolbers and Mary Zimmerman

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• The conservation of unprovenienced artifacts: An archaeological conundrum
  Michael B. Barber

• Created discovery? The role of conservation in “historic” discovery
  Doug Currie

• A plaster gladiator: Battered but still beautiful
  Carol A. Grissom

• A progress report on the Oceanic Galleries Reinstallation Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Amy Jones, Beth Edelstein, and Linsly Boyer

• Conservation and looted art: Issues concerning provenance and good title when conserving or restoring art
  Lawrence M. Kaye

• Aquamanile (They’re so darn cute who wouldn’t want a copy?)
  Julie Lauffenburger

• Heritage conservation as public diplomacy: The role of the Department of State in protecting archaeological and ethnological heritage around the world
  Margaret G. H. MacLean

• Conservators, immigration and customs enforcement and the enforcement of heritage law
  James McAndrew

• The Art Loss Register and the conservator’s role in protecting against the theft of artifacts
  David Shillingford

• Negotiating Encounters with Suspect Artefacts
  Kathy Tubb