DE RIJP TILE PICTURE
Contract project for The National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) – Restoration of a whaling scene tile panel in preparation for the reopening of The Queen’s House.
The treatment involved removing the tiles from the heavy and out-dated plaster bedding, clean tiles of dirt and plaster residue, bond all sections, re-attach tiles to a sturdy but lightweight support, fill losses and retouch fills.
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16th CENTURY TILED ROOM
These tiled walls adorn the entrance hall at the Santa Clara Church and former convent in the city of Porto, Portugal.
The tiles had been restored early in the 20th century and now falling into disrepair. The intervention goals were to preserve as many tiles as possible, removing inadequate mortar covering their edges, securing tiles deemed unstable, and reinstating losses to glazed surfaces, improving the overall readability of these highly fractured tiles in the historic room.