‘Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2010’
ICOM-CC WG Glass & Ceramics Interim Meeting at the
Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG), Corning (NY)
Sun., 3 Oct 2010 – Wed., 6 Oct 2010
Programme
SUNDAY, October 3, 2010
1:00 - 5:00 On-Site Registration for Participants, museum open
MONDAY, October 4
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome:
David B. Whitehouse, Executive Director, Corning Museum of Glass
9:05 – 9:15 Introduction:
Gerhard Eggert, ICOM-CC G&C WG Coordinator
9:15 – 9:20 Acknowledgements:
Hannelore Roemich, Preprints Editorial Coordinator
9:20 – 9:25 Social announcements:
Louise Maio, Corning Museum of Glass Events Coordinator
9:25 -9:30 Introduction to papers:
Stephen P. Koob, Chief Conservator, Corning Museum of Glass
Session I History, Technology and Training
Chair: Robert H. Brill
9:30 Recording Oral Memories in Fire Arts Conservation
Agnès Gall-Ortlik and Pau Maynés
10:00 From Mender to Restorer: Some Aspects of the History of Ceramic Repair
Isabelle Garachon
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 What Colour Has Saffron? - understanding German Recipes for the Production of Coloured Glazes in the 16th Century
Helena Fuertes, Christoph Krekel
11:30 Training of Ceramics and Glass Conservation Specialists at the Russian State University for the Humanities
Ekaterina Stolyarova, Ekaterina Sharkova
12:00 – 2:00 LUNCH (Box lunch provided). Note: 1:30-2:00 Meeting of HISTORY Group
Session II Special Collections
Chair: Hannelore Roemich
2:00 Deterioration and preservation of Blaschka glass
Astrid van Giffen, Katherine Eremin, Susanna Kirk, Jim Tate, Richard Newman
2:30 Classification and Preservation of Ancient Glass Beads from Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria
Akin O. Ige
3:00 The Museum of Antique Glass in Zadar
Šime Perović
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 The Production of Pottery Vessels from Peqi’in
Elisheva Kamaisky
4:30 Discussion
5:00 – 6:00 Special Hot Glass Demonstration (Hot Glass Stage)
6:00 – 8:00 Wine & Cheese Reception (Admissions Lobby)
TUESDAY, October 5
Session III Treatments
Chair: Kate van Lookeren de Campagne
9:00 Reattaching Paper Labels to Ceramics and Glass
Juanita Navarro
9:30 An Assessment of Polymers Used in Conservation Treatments at The Corning Museum of Glass
Norman H. Tennent, Stephen P. Koob
10:00 18 Tons of Roman Glass under the Sea: A Complex Conservation Puzzle
Paul Mardikian, Pascale Giirard
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 In Situ Mosaic Preservation of Three Glass and Marble Opus Sectile Panels at the Roman Villa of Faragola (Ascoli Satriano, Italy)
Maria Concetta Laurenti, Elisabeth Huber, Antonella Martinelli
11:30 An Experimental Treatment for Severely Crizzled Glasses
Stephen P. Koob
12:00 – 2:00 LUNCH (Box lunch provided). Note: 1:30-2:00 Meeting of GLASS DETERIORATION Group
2:00 – 3:00 POSTER SESSION - MEET THE AUTHORS/ DISCUSSION
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
Session IV Science and Technology
Chair: Norman Tennent
3:30 Archaeological glass: The Surface and Beyond
Paul Bellendorf, Hannelore Roemich, Sandra Gerlach, Peter Mottner, Esmeralda López, Katrin Wittstadt
4:00 Characterization of Japanese Raku Ceramics Using XRF and FTIR
Raina Chao, Blythe McCarthy, Gail Yano
4:30 Mercury Emissions from Historical Tin Amalgam Mirrors
Manfred Torge, Sonja Krug, Michael Buecker, Ines Feldmann, Holger Scharf, Heike Witthuhn, Christoph Sander, Kerstin Fraenkler-Balhorn
5:00 – 6:00 Business Meeting (Conference Room)
7:00 – 9:00 MEETING DINNER -- AUDITORIUM
WEDNESDAY, October 6
Session IV Science and Technology (continued)
Chair: Norman Tennent
9: 00 When Glass and Metal Corrode Together, II: A Black Forest Schäppel and Further Occurrences of Socoformacite
Gerhard Eggert, Anne Bührer, Bruno Barbier, Harald Euler
9:30 Composition, Stability, and Storage of Imperial Qing-Dynasty Glass
Abigail Hykin, Katherine Eremin, Michele Derrick, Richard Newman, Hao Sheng, Kimberley Simpson, Sarah Fearn
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
SESSION V Architectural glass, ceramics, tiles, and terracotta
Chair: Gerhard Eggert
10:30 Keeping Out the Wind: Repair and Restoration History in Stained Glass Windows Diane Roberts Rousseau
11:00 The Use of Glass Bricks in Architecture in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Case Study
K. de Vis, P. Jacobs, J. Caen, K. Janssens
11:30 An Investigation and Assessment of Tile-Work on Nila Gumbad
Maninder S. Gill
12:00 – 2:00 LUNCH (Box lunch provided)
2:00 Italian Renaissance Polychrome Terra-Cotta Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Jessica Chloros, Valentine Talland, Holly Salmon, Craig Uram
2:30 Hatching a Theory of Attribution: A 15th-Century Madonna and Child at the National Gallery of Art
Simona Cristanetti
3:00 Close of Meeting: Gerhard Eggert
4:00 - 7:00 TOURS, TRIP Corning Community College for wood-fired glass production
THURSDAY, October 7
9:00 – 2:00 OPTIONAL TOUR : Curtis Museum, Hammondsport; Konstantine Franks Winery: Lunch (participants pay)
3:00 BUS to NYC Bus drops participants at 70th & Park Ave. (FRICK MUSEUM).
Cost: ~ $ 90.00/person
LIST OF POSTERS
The Use of Fibrous Cellulose as a Mold Material in the Compensation of Large Losses in Ceramics
Paula Artal-Isbrand
Conservation of Plaster Casts
Frederike Burghout, Renske Dooijes, Luc Megens, Ineke Joosten and Alberto de Tagle
Historical Restorations in the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands
Renske Dooijes and Luc Megens
A Hellenistic Eshara and Its Repair
Krassimira Frangova
Thermovision Study of Heat Parameters in Museum Environments and Their Influence on Glass Corrosion
Elżbieta Greiner-Wronowa
Glass Objects from Bandbhore, Sindh
Asma Ibrahim
Protecting Art and Other Objects of Cultural Value from Photochemical Damage: The Possibilities of UV Protection on Glass
Anne Kaiser and Rolf Sandner
The Preservation and Weathering of Second-Millenium B.C. Glass from the Hurrian City of Nuzi (Iraq)
Susanna Kirk, Andrew Shortland and Katherine Eremin
William H. Grueby’s Pottery Techniques and Glaze Compositions: Analysis of Two Tile Panels from The Collection of the City of New York
Sarah Nunberg and Eleonora Del Feredrico
The Development of the Art of Stained Glass in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Mariana G. Wertheimer, Cristiane K. Santin and Raquel Alberti
How to register
All news on the conference can be found on the Corning website
http://www.cmog.org/dynamic.aspx?id=11483
There you will find a link to the registration form. Please print it, fill it in and send it back to Corning per normal mail. If you want to save money, do it as soon as possible!
Conference Fees :
ICOM(-CC) Members: 300 US$ (250 US$)
Non-members: 350 US$ (300 US$)
Students: 250 US$ (150 US$)
Fees in brackets apply only when your registration arrives in Corning before August 15, 2010.
Registration for the Meeting includes all lectures and receptions, the preprints, lunch boxes, the dinner on Tuesday (October 5), and one Make Your Own Glass experience.
How to get to Corning
Please note that we offer an own bus from Corning back to New York on Thursday but not on Sunday to get to Corning. Please use public buses to Corning. See http://www.coachusa.com/shortline/ for details.
There are 3 buses a day from New York City:
10:15 AM, arriving 3:50 PM (bus 103, changing in Binghamton to bus 130)
2:30 PM, arriving 7:55 PM (bus 111, changing in Binghamton to bus 118)
6:30 PM, arriving 11:55 PM (bus 119, changing in Binghamton to bus ? )
Buses leave from the PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL (corner of 41st & 8th Avenue in Manhattan).
Travelers should be there 1 hour in advance to purchase tickets or better buy there in advance.
It is also possible to fly to Corning, but connections are only available from Philadelphia on USAIR, or from Detroit (Delta/Northwest), so international flights should be connected through one of those 2 cities. There are no direct flights from New York or Newark to Corning.
Where to stay
The link 'About Accommodation' on the Corning conference page will lead you to a list of recommended hotels in and around Corning. Blocks of rooms at reduced rates have been reserved at these hotels in Corning and Painted Post (four miles west of Corning). Reservations must be made by calling the listed telephone numbers; do not call the toll-free numbers for the hotels’ headquarters. When making a reservation, please specify that you are a participant from the The Corning Museum of Glass.