Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
45th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
Treatment 2017: Innovation in Conservation and Collection Care
May 28-June 2, 2017

Edited by Kari Dodson and Emily Hamilton, with Anthony Sigel, Program Chair

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Anthony Sigel

Postprints abstracts

• The conservation of della Robbia sculpture: An exhibition as initiator of work
  Abigail Hykin

• The comprehensive retreatment of a Renaissance terracotta altarpiece by Benedetto Buglioni
  Rachel C. Sabino

• Truth versus beauty: Maintaining visual unity in the treatment of Florentine polychrome terracotta sculpture
  Anthony Sigel

• Conservation of 15th and 16th century Italian glazed terracotta: Thoughts from conservators in private practice
  Leslie Ransick Gat and Erin Toomey

• Tempting fate: Treatment of Giovanni della Robbia’s Adam and Eve
  Gregory Bailey

• The gap between ethics and aesthetics in Italian restoration: Experiences in the laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence – della Robbia sculpture case studies
  Laura Speranza and Shirin Afra

• The treatment of two terracotta architectural reliefs by Andrea della Robbia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Carolyn Riccardelli and Wendy Walker

• Structural repair of plaster sculpture using polyvinyl butyral resin
  L. H. (Hugh) Shockey Jr.

• Carbon fiber fabric and its potential for use in objects conservation
  Carolyn Riccardelli

• So delicate, yet so strong and versatile: The use of paper in objects conservation
  Paula Artal-Isbrand

• Archaeological glass conservation: Comparative approaches and practicalities of using acrylic resin films as gap fills
  Hana Bristow and Jan Dariusz Cutajar

• Practical evaluation and application of cleaning techniques for marble sculpture
  Raina Chao

• The use of medical chelating agents for the removal of iron stains from marble
  Anna Funke, Leah Poole, Jason Church, Dr. Mary Striegel, and Martha Singer

• Well, that didn’t work, now what? Stain reduction on a 10th century Iranian ceramic
  Claire Cuyaubère and Ellen Chase

• The case for cold: Using dry ice blasting to remove lacquer coating from the King Jagiello monument in Central Park
  Matt Reiley

• Treatment of two badly damaged Egyptian mummies and associated coffins
  J.P. Brown, Mimi Leveque, and Morgan Nau

• Sitting pretty: Collaborative treatment of an early Yayoi Kusama soft-sculpture chair
  Fran Baas and Laura Eva Hartman

• New technologies applied to restore a nineteenth-century wax Medardo Rosso sculpture
  Lluïsa Sàrries-Zgonc

• The case of the hydrating hydra: Examination and treatment of a Blaschka glass invertebrate model
  N. Astrid R. van Giffen

• “Do what’s right”: The conservation of a David Hammons mud sculpture
  Sasha Drosdick, Roger Griffith, and Lynda Zycherman

General Session

• Resurrecting della Robbia’s Resurrection: Challenges in the conservation of a monumental Renaissance relief
  Sara Levin, Nick Pedemonti, and Lisa Bruno

Tips Session

• Strut your stuff: The use of strut channel as a support system for objects
  Karl Knauer

• Modifying rivet fasteners in historic armors: Several options
  Katherine Cuffari and Debra Breslin

• “Stencil filling” technique for ceramics and the use of raking light during the filling process

  Paula Artal-Isbrand

• Pepper wax: An organic squirrel deterrent for lead
  Lauren Fair and Adam Jenkins

• Copper electroforming: An alternative to casting for metal replication
  Mark Erdmann

• Fast fills for big gaps
  Rachel C. Sabino

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• To B-72 or not to B-72? Alternative adhesives for archaeological ceramics
  Elisheva Kamaisky and Rachael Perkins Arenstein

• An evaluation of cold paste waxes used in conservation for outdoor bronze sculpture
  Julie Wolfe, Cristina L. Simms, Alessa Gambardella, Rosie Grayburn, Arlen Heginbotham, Herant Khanjian, Joy Mazurek, Alan Phenix, Katrina Posner, Michael Schilling, Magdalena Solano, Maria Olivia Davalos Stanton, and Hope Welder

• Local treatment for outdoor painted metal sculptures: Designing suitable paints for retouching
  Nikki van Basten, Ulysses Jackson, and Rachel Rivenc

Tips Session

• New applications for Orasol dyes
  Julia Sybalsky, Fran Richie, Lisa Elkin, and Judith Levinson

• Thermatech cleaning unit
  Justin Schwebler

• Passivating stainless steel on-site
  Lucinda Linderman

• Volara shaping
  Craig Deller