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Article: Conserving a French furniture suite. (Design Notes).
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the fortunate owner of a suite of documented eighteenth-century French furniture with a history of ownership in the Swan family of Massachusetts. These pieces have recently been conserved, reupholstered, and reinstalled in a gallery in the museum (see p.22 of this issue). The suite is comprised of ten pieces, all of which have gilding. Since the pieces came to the museum from a number of private collections, some had been restored while others exhibited various signs of wear. A separate evaluation and recommended treatment was made for each piece. The restoration project was conducted in three stages over the course of four years, all ...
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Article: MFA gives rare French furniture collection a royal ...
The Boston Herald;
October 14, 2002 ;
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... ... Collection, an exhibit of restored 18th century royal French furniture, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts with a cocktail party ... This is the only complete set of 18th century royal French furniture in America," MFA director Malcolm Rogers said. "It ...
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