Documentation et conservation-restauration d’un autel bouddhique en bois laqué et doré, provenant du Japon
A small gilded and lacquered wooden Buddhist altar has been kept for years in a cardboard box in the storage rooms of the Georges Labit museum in Toulouse. The challenge of this project was to collect information on the origins of the altar, its time of creation and its specific function in the ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association CeROArt
2010-11-01
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| Series: | CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ceroart/1582 |
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| Summary: | A small gilded and lacquered wooden Buddhist altar has been kept for years in a cardboard box in the storage rooms of the Georges Labit museum in Toulouse. The challenge of this project was to collect information on the origins of the altar, its time of creation and its specific function in the country of origin. The research focused on raising understanding how this object has been transferred from the Japanese culture into a French collection that has been developed by Georges Labit a traveller and collector of the late nineteenth century. Examinations showed that the altar with its original Japanese wooden support and polychromy showes over paints that have been applied in Europe during the nineteenth century. These over paints demonstrate its laborious (?) passage from one country to another. Obviously, the new owners of the altar intervened by repairing damages caused during the journey of the artefact and by adapting the appearance to Western aesthetic standards. |
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| ISSN: | 1784-5092 |