TAA i.2.12a.1.54

                                                                                                                    (54)

Footstool 30
Hard red wood Wood covered with gesso: blue faience/<glass>

panels/<inlay>: figures of captives in gesso on faience: figures 

painted yellow & red. No gilt. Paint rubs off 

when damp: Stuck on loose gesso with celluloid cement.
Brushed off superficial dust with dry brush: washed 

faience/<glass> with damp sponge & damp brush 

Sprayed with celluloid in amyl acetate. Put in sun & treated 

with melted paraffin wax. Replaced loose gesso with celluloid cement.

Stool (a) 149 & (b) 142
a. Seat (centre missing) & 1 leg
Seat is covered both sides with gesso which is flaking off. 

Leg <(hard wood> coated in parts with gesso (small part near top only – 

b. 3 legs & 3 rails from between legs.              greater part is curved & metal 
                                                                         coating (gold) has been directly 

                                                                          on wood with no gesso)
Legs as (a): Rails covered with gesso.
Gesso has been covered with metal, partly gold & 

partly bronze (fragments left)
Coated with hot paraffin wax

Basket 97
Blew off & brush off dust.

Sandal 104<a> (Rush & papyrus)
Disfigured by perished leather which had dropped on. Chipped 

off leather. Sprayed with a solution of celluloid in amyl acetate.