[TheForge] Jean Tijou screens (Re: Some new pics OT)

[Rich Maynard]

I found out recently that the friend I went to college with (Steve Tijou) is
a direct ancestor of Jean Tijou. How cool is that?!?

Richard Maynard - Artist Blacksmith
The Forge, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire SG10 6BS
 
rich at muchhadhamforge.co.uk
www.muchhadhamforge.co.uk


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Subject: [TheForge] Jean Tijou screens (Re: Some new pics OT)



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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