Image Story Au + Cu = Bling! Wed, 01/30/2019 - 13:37 Emory University student Emily Farek investigated the ancient technique of gold granulation. She examined Carlos Museum objects and considered the chemistry that enables this process.
Image Story Casting Intaglio Gems Wed, 01/30/2019 - 13:30 The Carlos Museum houses an excellent collection of carved gems from throughout the ancient world. In antiquity, the carved surface would have been pressed into either wax or clay to transfer the image.
Image Story 3-D Prototyping Wed, 01/30/2019 - 13:19 This slide presentation documents the use of 3-D prototyping to aid in the reconstruction of extensive losses in a black-figure ceramic plate.
Image Story All the King's Horses Wed, 01/30/2019 - 13:09 Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Conservator Kathryn Etre treated this pyxis (or lidded pot) from the Geometric Age in Greece for installation in the Greek and Roman Galleries at the Michael C Carlos Museum of Emory University.
Image Story Beneath the Wrappings Fri, 01/25/2019 - 13:03 In 1921, William Arthur Shelton, a professor in Emory's Candler School of Theology, purchased an Old Kingdom mummy from the sacred site of Abydos in Middle Egypt.
Image Story Color Clues Fri, 01/25/2019 - 12:51 The Georg Steindorff Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig loaned beads from an Old Kingdom broad collar and choker to the Carlos Museum for examination and restringing.
Image Story Panama Purple Fri, 01/25/2019 - 12:45 A purple slip began to appear on Panamanian pottery of the Coclé region around 500 AD. The coloration of this slip is unusual because most purple slips in the Americas are more maroon.
Image Story A Harlot's Progress Fri, 01/25/2019 - 12:38 Emory University students Eveleigh Wagner and Courtney Von Stein worked with consulting conservator of paper Elizabeth Schulte to clean six prints of A Harlot’s Progress by British artist William Hogarth.
Image Story Evidence in Paint Drips Fri, 01/25/2019 - 12:32 While preparing a Dogon Kanaga mask for exhibition at the Carlos Museum, Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Conservation Fellow Ashley Jehle discovered clues to the object’s original construction.
Image Story Ancient Laundry Fri, 01/25/2019 - 12:20 Emory University student Rebecca Levitan and Georgia State University student Arden Davis worked with consulting conservator of textiles Patricia Ewer to bathe fragments of an Andean doublecloth textile.
