Scott, David A., Jerry Podany, and Brian B. Considine, eds. Ancient & Historic Metals: Conservation and Scientific Research. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1994.
Downloadable in three sections:
Section 1 (96pp., 4.3MB)
Includes:
Preface; Foreword; "The Monument of Marcus Aurelius: Research and Conservation;" "Restoration of the Monument of Marcus Aurelius: Facts and Comments;" "Bronze Objects from Lake Sites: From Patina to 'Biography';" "The Royal Art of Benin: Surfaces, Past and Present;" "Considerations in the Cleaning of Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels;" "Tomography of Ancient Bronzes."
Section 2 (98pp., 4MB)
Includes:
"Chinese Bronzes: Casting, Finishing, Patination, and Corrosion;" "The Corrosion of Bronze Monuments in Polluted Urban Sites: A Report
on the Stability of Copper Mineral Species at Different pH Levels;" "The Technology of Medieval Jewelry."
Section 3 (123pp., 4.9MB)
Includes:
"Gold Foil, Strip, and Wire in the Iron Age of Southern Africa;" "Conservation of Architectural Metalwork: Historical Approaches to the Surface Treatment of Iron;" "Techniques of Mercury Gilding in the Eighteenth Century;" "Production and Restoration of Nineteenth-century Zinc Sculpture in Denmark;" "Real-time Survival Rates for Treatments of Archaeological Iron;" "Conservation of Corroded Metals: A Study of Ships' Fastenings from the Wreck of HMS Sirius (1790);" "The Conservation of Outdoor Zinc Sculpture."
