123mc15-AL-2017_Nichelino, Stupinigi Hunting Lodge, Table, inv. 3110

Facilitated description: 

 

The table is a work of gilded wood with stone top. 
The table was made in the mid-1700s. 
The table is kept at Stupinigi's Hunting Lodge, in the Queen's Bedroom. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the table in 2017. 
The restorers have placed the table in the anoxic chamber (room without oxygen that serves to eliminate insects that eat wood). 
They cleaned the table of dust. 
They stopped the parts that were coming off. 
They filled the wooden gaps with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They painted the stucco with watercolors and gold dust. 
They painted the table to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
In the end they cleaned the stone top and put a protective substance. 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

Restoration 

The table of the Queen's Bedroom of Piedmontese manufacture has been restored as part of the project to complete the restoration of the rooms of the Queen's Apartment (Bedroom and Toilet Room).
The work was disinfected in anoxic chamber for a period of three weeks to eliminate any symptomatic attacks. Before cleaning, all the widespread lifts on the decorative surface were consolidated with injections of acrylic resin. The removal of inconsistent deposits from the surface was carried out using soft bristle brushes and microaspirators. For deposits on metal foil, on the other hand, following appropriate tests, it was decided to operate with a fat emulsion, then properly rinsed with ligroin. Purpurine residues on the metal foil are mechanically removed, as are some particularly compact sediments. Wishab tires made it possible to remove atmospheric particulate matter present on the back and below the floor. The gaps on the pictorial and golden surface have been grouted and chromatically integrated (stitch technique) with watercolor colors and mica dust. Finally, a protective layer of paint was applied to the entire surface.

The intervention also provided for the cleaning of the scagliola surface to thin the layers of paint that have become brown and eliminate the deposits of atmospheric particulate matter and areas of brown concretions. The missing parts of the profile were compensated with putty. Finally, a microcrystalline wax film was spread over the entire surface.