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Subject:What is this stuff on my wooden figure?
Posted By: Maxxxxy Wed, Mar 28, 2018 IP: 2601:381:4202:8007:8
I recently found this carved wooden figure, it has what looks like grey cement or a hard plaster on it. The material is starting to flake off, I'm not sure that it ever covered the entire statue. Is this some kind of artificial aging? Or an attempt at refinishing? Or??? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.





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Subject:Re: What is this stuff on my wooden figure?
Posted By: Robert Thu, Mar 29, 2018
They would put a coating of gesso (similar to plaster) and sometimes fabric over wood objects to serve as a base for lacquer painting. With time the lacquer painted colors and the gesso tended to flake off.

Subject:Re: What is this stuff on my wooden figure?
Posted By: Maxxxxy Fri, Mar 30, 2018
Thanks! The odd thing is that there is paint both under and over this gesso coating, and in most areas it doesn't look to have been painted at all. The gold color on the chair looks recent and very sloppily applied, plus it was applied after the gesso had started flaking. A mystery to me...
Thanks again!



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