3-AL-2012_Venaria, Royal Palace, Console, inv. R 2406 (property of Racconigi Castle)

Facilitated description:

 

The console is a type of table with gilded wooden legs and a marble (stone) shelf.
The console was made in the mid-1700s.
The consul is kept at the Reggia di Venaria.
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the console in 2012.
The restorers treated the console with a product against wood-eating insects.
They eliminated the dirt with a small vacuum cleaner, water and alcohol.
They glued the raised wooden parts and filled the gaps with putty (plaster and glue).
They filled the missing color parts with watercolor and gold powder.
In the end, they painted the wood to protect the console from the sun's rays and dust and cleaned the marble.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The consul is owned by the Castle of Racconigi (property of the Castle of Racconigi, Royal Residences of the Savoy - Regional Directorate of National Museums of Piedmont).
The work, by a Piedmontese workshop, was subjected to anti-moth treatment with permethrin. Subsequently, the atmospheric deposits were removed with aspiration and punctual cleaning with water and alcohol at the level of the support and the detached wooden sculpture elements were consolidated. Incoherent deposits have been removed chemically and mechanically on the decorated portions. The upheavals have therefore been consolidated with adhesive injections and the gaps have been grouted. The integration was performed with watercolor and micaceous gold colors. Finally, the wooden surface was treated with protective varnish. The marble surface has also been cleaned and protected with microcrystalline wax.