Academic thesis
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| Abstract: | The present Bachelor-Thesis describes a model of a sailing ship (frigate), primarily made of twisted glass strings. The model is painted with cold-paint and has some applications of silk and copper-brass-sheets. It is standing on a wooden board, which is padded with cotton wool, inside a later added wooden showcase with industrially cylinder-blown glass sheets. It was probably made around 1820 in Murano / Venice and is since 1932 part of the collection of the Hamburg-Museum in Hamburg / Germany. Unfortunately, there are no information about the object’s history. The Bachelor-Thesis includes a description of the object, its production method and today’s condition. The main focus was to work out a conservation proposal, which includes the cleaning of the ship and the cotton wool, the stabilisation of flaky paint layers, the bonding of broken glass strings and the doubling of the silk flags. Concrete proposals about materials and techniques of conservation were tested on dummies or parts of the original object and discussed in the thesis. |
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