China repair, restorers. Article From: BENRITE@EROLS.COM Category: Category 1 Date: 11/3/98 Time: 8:51:24 AM Remote Name: 208.214.178.21 Comments Re: article From: james Category: Category 1 Date: 11/3/98 Time: 8:52:42 AM Remote Name: 208.214.178.21 Comments I suggest you bring your item to a professional!
There are several restorers listed on the website under Porcelain Restorers. RS Prussia From: Johannes_Grabau@yahoo.com Category: Category 1 Date: 11/3/98 Time: 9:55:13 AM Remote Name: 208.214.178.21 Comments If any one knows: What does the "RS" stand for in "RS Prussia". Re: RS Prussia From: James Category: Category 1 Date: 11/3/98 Time: 9:56:41 AM Remote Name: 208.214.178.21 Comments Reinhold Schlegelmilch China Tea Pot.
From: Giuliano Girometta (ELCRAFT) elcraft@gtis.net Category: Category 1 Date: 11/5/98 Time: 4:45:22 PM Remote Name: 208.246.25.78 Comments I am currently working on a moving damage claim and the moving company lost the lid of a tea pot . Porcelain restoration. *** FIRST MENDING RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM *** 29 JUNE – 2 JULY 2012. Call for Contributions: Cultures of Repair (edited collection) Edited by Mark Rainey and Theo Reeves-Evison Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London Suggested themes: Aesthetics of Repair, Technologies of Repair, Post-Colonial Reparations, Reparative Justice What does it mean to repair something?
Is it to restore function, to compensate for a fault, deterioration, or deficiency, or can the concept be expanded to account for a general condition whereby a constitutive fault is repaired by art, technology, justice or invention? This book aims to mediate between concrete ‘cultures of repair’ and more abstract conceptions in the spheres of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Aesthetics of Repair In The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce famously writes of going forth to ‘forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race’. Technologies of Repair Post-colonial Reparations Reparative Justice. Amsterdam Tries to Change Culture With ‘Repair Cafes’ Hack Things Better. For as long as I can remember… « Past Imperfect, The Art of Inventive Repair. …I have been fascinated with old broken things embellished with interesting repairs.
My parents, dealers in antiques since the early 1960’s, would sometimes find items with quirky repairs in box lots from auction houses. Many dealers, like my parents, took these “damaged” pieces home to display, as they knew their discriminating customers were only interested in adding pieces in perfect condition to their collections.
As a child, I was intrigued by an early Staffordshire ABC plate on display in our kitchen; broken in half but somehow miraculously held together by a few metal staples on the back. I remember seeing in museums large urns, vases and platters with numerous rivets, looking a lot like Frankenstein’s monster. In my teens, my mother took me to an antiques dealer‘s house, filled with extraordinary folk art. Determined to find examples for my new collection, I searched through antiques shops and flea market, asking dealers for pieces with early repairs.