Restoration of Ceramic Pitcher

This elaborate and exquisitely designed pitcher is an heirloom that has been with the family in Belville, Texas for several generations. It has been broken in multiple pieces. The restoration involved sculpting many fragments in order of the existing pieces to fit perfectly. Read the clients' testimonial.

 

Porcelain Repair

The vase below has been smashed to pieces by one of the Time-Warner Cable Technicians in New York City when he was working on the client's cable box. The cable company contacted Luba to do the repair on the porcelain vase.

 

China & Porcelain Restoration

 

After her husband’s death in 1811, Esther Marion, of the great aristocratic family of South Carolina, purchased the famous Marion china from a company in Tunstall, Staffordshire, England. The Esther Marion china is the “soft paste” porcelain so popular at that time. Originally, the china was a double set of 550 pieces. Each piece has the initials “E M” surrounded by a laurel wreath.

The set included numerous plates, bowls, serving dishes, and a toilet set. We can only imagine the marvelous parties and dinners given at Belle Isle! Read more about it on Sumter County Museum's website. One of the museum's exhibits features the Esther Marion China.

This month Luba restored a beautiful Esther Marion piece that has been given as a gift to the Town of Turbeville, SC.

 

Antique Ceramic Repair

This is a very rare Medieval Spanish Ceramic Charger circa 1470-1500. Moulded. Whitish tin-glaze decorated in brownish lustre and blue. Purchased damaged from Riano Collection.

The heraldic shield is set in a raised cirlce from which radiate fifteen ribs forming petal-shaped pannels filled with dot-and-stalk pattern and studs in blue or left in reserve. The reverse with a spiral and under the brim a wavy line with circles and dots.

The charger had multiple cracks running across the center. The restoration involved filling in the cracks and replicating the surface pattern and design.

 

Antique Porcelain Plate Restoration

Founded in 1744, the Imperial Porcelain Factory of St. Petersburg, Russia was created by the order of Empress Elizabeth to "serve native trade and native art." The factory produced wares exclusively for the ruling Romanov family and the Russian Imperial Court.

A collector of Imeprial porcelain, based in Baltimore, MD purchased a plate made between 1825 and 1855. The plate was broken and badly restored. He asked Luba to take the old restoration off and restore the plate to its original state.

This porcelain plate has a complicated lace-like pattern and severely damaged desgin in the center of the plate. The restoration involved sculpting extra pieces, filling in the cracks, matching and replicating the design, airbrushing and glazing.

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