Shattered – Piecing Together Broken Pottery



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Perilously perched atop a bookshelf, patiently awaiting a pirouette to the parquet, this earthenware pottery was a beloved possession of its owner and prays to once again be the prize of their eye. While I don’t work with many ceramics, occasionally one comes along that temps me; the novelty of the new, the challenge of the task and the pleading of a good client all conspire to have me saying yes.

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48 thoughts on “Shattered – Piecing Together Broken Pottery”

  1. Since you are branching out to restore art other than paintings, can we expect any tapestries in the future? Kidding aside, you have a gift and would likely do an amazing job.

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  2. I love noticing the Gamble-esque tubes you used for glue tubes after havibg watched the behind the canvas series! This is why I love learning about all the niche thibgs related to something! Thank you for making both of these series!

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  3. Wait. If you retouch with watercolor, isn’t a drop of water or a wipe with a slightly damp cloth is going to take off the retouching? I get reversible, but that’s risky.

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  4. Hubris is a noun, not an adjective. “So hubris as to think…” should be “so arrogant as to think” or something.
    Whew, now that I got that off my chest I can go watch the video.

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  5. This restoration is amazing! But I was distracted by its perfection…
    This project brings to.mind the Japanese art of repairing broken earthenware with gold…highlighting the breaks….Kinstugi.
    I wonder if it was considered?

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  6. I'm watching this, envisioning what made that beautiful bowl swan-dive from the top of that bookcase, and the following came to mind: "If the world were actually flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now."

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  7. Poor decision on thumbnail. It looked like another 'Art Science Series' vid, because you are in it. We are programmed, now, to expect restoration videos with a thumbnail of only the original artwork. That said, your new series with you 'in the frame', discovering and/or sharing the nuances thereof, are less interesting to your broader viewership, as stats show. I'm not being nasty, I love your videos, just letting you know, if you didn't already…

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  8. Years ago I lived near a once popular graffiti wall, previously a foundation for an old building. It was being reclaimed by nature. I loved to walk down there just to be alone with my thoughts. One day I found a mountain of broken plates scattered across the landscape. I quickly realized some of the shards had sharpie marks, fragments of words. I spent a whole summer day picking up all of the broken plate glass, sorting out the ones with sharpie marks. After quite a lot of meticulously matching different types of plates to different types of sharpie, I eventually realized it was actually several plates with sharpie marks. Long story short, I hot glued the plate shards together and found multiple angsty messages about teenage girls saying angry things about their family and relationships. I looked into it more, writing on plates and shattering them was a popular tiktok trend for a time. Some people might come away from this angry, but I had a really fun time.

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  9. My brain always loves the retouching, watching the abnormalities fade away (hits me square in the ASMR) and makes me so sleepy. And the lovely music helps as well!

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  10. This seems like an unusual amount of effort for an 'Unknown Florentine' pedestal bowl – it must have had sentimental value for the client. For those interested, this is a very accessible / affordable piece of mcm Italian art pottery.

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  11. Julian, this is truly amazing. Watching you work is always magic but this is right up my alley. I fell in love with Kirsten Ramsay and her work restoring ceramics on the British tv series "The Repair Shop" and this continues that joy. Thank you for taking on this and sharing the work with us. I have one question though, What did you do about the signature? I know you do not touch up signatures on paintings, so how did you address this. With cracks and loss through the signature I was really hoping the final shots would tell us how you tackled this. Keep up the amazing work.

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