Academic thesis
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The present BA-Thesis is concerned with a clock in Louis XVI –style, from the museum August Kestner in Hanover. Louis XVI –clocks feature, depending on provenance and date of manufacture, a variety of combinations of materials and ornamentation and thus constitute unique and original works of art. This clock most probably originates from the workshop of the master clock-maker Johan Bendele from Salzburg, dated at around 1780. Owing to the use of a variety of materials, this clock displays a diversity of damage-phenomena which afford individual approaches. The concept of measures, established in this thesis, aims at an approximation to the original appearance of the clock, which is affected by fissures in the gold- and wood-surface, by a salient bronzing and by aged and instable bonding as much as broken-off elements of the wooden ornamentation. Based on observations, thoughts have been developed regarding cleaning, consolidation, reduction of the bronzing, removal of the aged bonding, new bonding, cementing, retouching as well as regarding the future storage of the object in the depot, in order to exclude further mechanical stress and to facilitate its future exhibition.
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- academic institution: FH Erfurt
- kind of theses: Bachelorarbeit
- date: 2017
- Language: German
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