UKIC Furniture Section, Tate Gallery, Frames Conservation Department.
Tuesday 29 September 1998

Clifford Deighton has organised  this visit to the Frames Conservation
Section of the Conservation Department of the Tate Gallery, Mill Bank,  London
SW1

Provisional Programme:-

9.30 to 10.00           Registration and Coffee
PLEASE ARRIVE WELL BEFORE 10.00 AS IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO ADMIT LATE
COMERS
10.00 to 11.00          Historical look at design etc.
11.00 to 11.30          Break
11.30 to 11.45          Vitrines.  Micro climates
11.45 to 12.15          Frames and build up construction
12.15 to 12.30          Glazing doors
12.30 to 13.00          Gallery talks on frames etc.
13.00 to 14.00          Lunch
14.00 to 16.30          Practice session including demonstrations and short
talks on various analytical options for frame decoration etc., cleaning,gilding,
composition materials, documentation.

If the group is interested and there is time there will be  a brief visit to
the painting conservation unit.

Cost:  Pounds Sterling 6.00  excluding  lunch

This event is limited to 20 places

To book send two SAE plus cheque for 6.00 made payable  to UKIC  Furniture
Section to

Lyndsay Piper, Colin Piper Conservation, Highfield House,
The Greens, Leafield,  Witney, Oxfordshire,   OX8 5NP
01993 878593    Fax 01993 878009
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Dominique-Anita Rogers, BSc.
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Ganapati Kumari, Pin Mill, Ipswich, IP9 1JW, UK.