17mc65-MC-2013_Nichelino, Stupinigi Hunting House (Toilet of the King's apartment), Eighteen-arm chandelier, inv. 393

Facilitated description:

 

The chandelier is a work of metal and glass made in the mid-1800s.
The chandelier is kept in the Hunting Palace of Stupinigi, in the dressing room of the King's apartment.
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the chandelier in 2013.
The restorers dismantled the chandelier to clean all the pieces.
They washed the glass parts and cleaned the metal parts with chemicals.
They dried the parts under a special lamapada.
They repainted the candles.
They rebuilt the electrical system and replaced the damaged hooks.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The chandelier of the King's Apartment Toilet Cabinet was dismantled in order to a diversified cleaning for each material. The brass structure has been cleaned with swabs and finished with a light abrasive to lower the surface oxidation layer of the metal. From this cleaning areas with gilding and iron repairs were excluded. The fractured brass element was glued and fixed to the structure. The gold foil leaves, candle holders and brass plates have been cleaned with ligroin baths to remove the protective surface. The screws and various iron elements were mechanically cleaned and then treated with protective. The cleaning of the glass pendants was carried out by immersion in water as well as the beads wires. The drying was done under an IR lamp. The electrical system was then restored by reusing the candle holders of the previous system, and applying gold and brown wires tin-welded and covered with thermal rubber. The electrical system was then restored. The wooden candles have been stripped and repainted. Finally, the glass elements were reassembled.