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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 1936845, member: 5066&quot;]Killer cupboard, no doubt! It&#039;s at the Henry Ford Museum, somehow, i don&#039;t think they are gonna be parting with that example any time soon.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It was restored in the 1990s, not that long ago. Chipstone did an article on the restoration in 2009. Big job and thankfully new tools &amp; technology have come forth to open up a new world in painted objects.</p><p><a href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/596/American-Furniture-2009/Early-Polychrome-Chests-from-Hadley,-Massachusetts:-A-Technical-Investigation-of-their-Paint-and-Finish" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/596/American-Furniture-2009/Early-Polychrome-Chests-from-Hadley,-Massachusetts:-A-Technical-Investigation-of-their-Paint-and-Finish" rel="nofollow">http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/596/American-Furniture-2009/Early-Polychrome-Chests-from-Hadley,-Massachusetts:-A-Technical-Investigation-of-their-Paint-and-Finish</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The early polychromy (3 or more colors) was completely obscured by at least eight alternating layers of degraded plant resin varnish (such as copal, amber, mastic or sandarac), dirt, shellac, and two layers of dark repaint sandwiched between the varnish layers. On top of this thick accumulation of darkened material was a distinct sludge layer of degraded oil—the result of decades of applications of the linseed oil, vinegar and turpentine dressing.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Photo of Susan Buck removing the FINAL layer of crud</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]245842[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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