pf wrote:
> Certainly, seeing pics of Chris Ray's work and that of Pol bury
> and Yves Tanguey (sp, shamefully) had a lot to do with my trying
> to molest metal for all these years.
That reminds me: Maybe I just spend too much time in my badger hole
and should get out more. But I just discovered that Tijou's screens
at Hampton Court have been restored!
Cyril Smith came to one of the seminars I did and, when I showed
slides of the screens, he asked if they were original. I had to say
that some of the side panels surely weren't because I'd seen pictures
showing them full of scroll work while my slides showed just plain
vertical bars; and for the rest, it was really hard to make any
judgment because everything was slobbered over with such a thick coat
of black paint.
Well! If you haven't seem them already, look here:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/eaig/HamptonCtweb/pages/010.htm
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/256363
The side panels once again have their original scrollwork and all the
repousse work is *gilded*. Yow! What a difference.
Old news but the first I'd heard of it.
(When I showed some slides of my work back to back with the Tijou
screens, Prof. Smith also said, "Yours is nicer". Twenty-four years
later, that still gives me a buzz. :-)
- Mike
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