Letter 34 CDF art. 179, Letter from Plenderleith to Schaeffer about the second bowl sent for restoration, scan 2 (3 April 1952)

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Printed: RESEARCH LABORATORY,

Printed: BRITISH MUSEUM,

Printed: London, W.C.1.

Printed: 3rd April, 1952

Figure: British Museum Research Laboratory emblem; labels: none

Dear Dr. Schaeffer,

I find that I have omitted to mention the second bowl in my letter to you of yesterday's date. Unfortunately, it is in such a state beyond redemption as it has been converted almost entirely to silver chloride. Chemical cleaning would merely cause further loss of shape and greater weakness and I cannot advise it. It has been X-rayed and shows no trace of ornament and it has yielded no fragments of gold that might have fallen from micello exp. It will be stable in the present condition but, of course, it is very frail. I do not propose to do anything with it.

With best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Handwritten: signature

H.J. PLENDERLEITH

[illegible]

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain