Conservation Treatments
treatment of objects and building elements is a core component of our practice.
JBC has experience treating a wide range of materials of all sorts of shapes and sizes. Treatments are performed by our trained conservators in accordance with professional ethics and guidelines. Treatments typically begin with a conditions assessment. Conservators then work with the client to develop a treatment plan that meets the client’s needs. Treatments range from restoring objects to their original condition to stabilizing them to prevent further deterioration. In all of our treatment designs, we aim to provide for long-term maintenance, reversibility and, when appropriate, re-treatment. At the conclusion of a project, we present our clients with detailed treatment reports that document the means and methods used for the benefit of future generations.
Example Treatments
Sculpture Conservation
Tile and Terra Cotta Glaze Repair
Plaster Consolidation and Re-attachment
Mosaic Conservation
Stabilization and Repair
Graffiti Removal
Stone Replacement, Composite Patching, Pinning, and Polishing
Hot Waxing Bronze
Wallpaper Re-attachment and In-painting
Cemetery Conservation
Resetting Markers
Cleaning
Consolidation
Composite Patching
Stabilize a plaster ceiling.
Preparing to reset a cemetery marker after rejoining fractured pieces.
Cleaning Benjamin Franklin marble statue.
Raking joints in a marble monument before repointing.
A conservator in-paints wall paper.
Before and after treatment of torn/lifting wall paper.
Rebuilding losses with composite patching mortar.
Removing corroded iron pins in a cemetery marker.
Replacing lost mosaic tesserae in a Tiffany & Co. mosaic.
Installing a protective lead cap on a cemetery marker.
Driling for pins to attach a reconstructed wing.
Lifting a fractured bust back onto the body after carving a replacement head.
Rejoining a fractured marble arm using an armature to support the delicate components.
In-painting a terra cotta medallion at New York's Tammany Hall.
Carefully cleaning cracks in marble sculpture in preparation for filling.
Stabilizing 20th century graffiti.
Treating a marble headstone (note inscription on bottom of stone at right showing the stone was re-used).
Conservators clean a bronze plaque at Castle Clinton in preparation for hot waxing.