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A triptych, oil paint on wood, and painted glass in the reverse.
Provenance: original provenance from France.
Date: possibly mid 18th century (?)
Original glass pieces with 1,5 mm thick.
Deeply altered with previous restoration campaigns, this piece had a delicate conservation treatment to stabilize the fragile paint of the reverse of the glass as well as in the wing vertical panels.

Pine framed stained glass window.


An antique window with hand rolled glasses.


Mezuzah, stained wood, circa 1920. Attribution: Ilya Schor. 
Intervention: Glue the fractured fragment using fish glue and Ethafoam® wedges; insert putty filler Araldite® AV1253 in the left back of the same glue point, to fill a gap of missing wood fragment; touch-ups with brown watercolors in areas that were recently scratched and dented; application of Renaissance® micro-crystalline wax polish a protective finish coating.


Wild live wood carved fox and rabbit shelfs, on basswood, Swiss workshop, late 19th century (?)
Intervention: re-glue detached fragments and re-carve other lost fragments (leaf endings and one front paw of each animal).


Ebony elephant and figures, Indian workshop.



Domed radio box.


Jewelry box, vellums and decorative tacks.


Camphor wood box, Mozambique workshop.


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