Checkmate
It’s not often our curators and preparators get to “play” with our objects, but the team who recently moved Gianni Toso’s Chess Set, a whimsical work that is a favorite with our visitors, got to learn a little bit about … Read more →
Posts Tagged ‘stephen koob’
Restoration of Prunted Beaker (Part Two)
In the second part of this series, Stephen Koob, the Museum’s conservator, describes the methods used to fill the losses of a prunted beaker on display in Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants. Now that the beaker has been … Read more →
Restoring a Glass Liberty Bell
This weekend, we celebrated 234 years as an independent nation, so it’s timely that a team of Museum staff installed in the galleries a large, American cut glass Liberty Bell that is on long-term loan to the Museum from Dr. Kenneth Braunstein. Read more →
Prunted Beaker Restoration
Watch as our conservator, Stephen Koob, restores a 13th/14th-century prunted beaker for our newest exhibition, Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants. Prunts are blobs of glass applied to a glass object as decoration. These prunts may also have a … Read more →