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Identification and Creation

Object Number
Straus.8906
Title
X-radiograph(s) of "Flowerpot with Barbed, Foliate Rim"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, x-radiograph
Date
August 5, 2016
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356810

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions
plate size: 35.6 × 43.2 cm (14 × 17 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs
Object Number
Straus.8906
Contact
am_straus@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
X-radiograph Operators: Susan Costello and Lucy Cooper

Material Description: Ceramic

Sample for TL?:

Radiation source: Comet tube MXR320-26

CR plate type: Carestream Industrex Flex HR (white)

Exposure settings:
Bottom: 50kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180 seconds 195cm focal distance
Side: 50kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180 seconds 195cm focal distance
Other side: 50kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180 seconds 195cm focal distance
Top: 50kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180 seconds 195cm focal distance
Side: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 240 seconds 195cm focal distance
8x10 plate Lobe 1: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 210 seconds 195cm focal distance
8x10 plate Lobe 2: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 210 seconds 195cm focal distance
8x10 plate Lobe 3: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 210 seconds 195cm focal distance
8x10 plate Lobe 4: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 210 seconds 195cm focal distance
8x10 plate Lobe 5: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 210 seconds 195cm focal distance
8x10 plate Lobe 6: 45kV 5mA 3mmFOC 210 seconds 195cm focal distance

Filtration used: none

Screens used: Lead under film

Set up/sequencing notes: Shot on floor

Scanning notes: laser power high, 12-bit logarithmic data scale, PMT 10, 50 micron scan resolution

Image manipulation notes: Industrex Edge 6 filter, Photoshop manipulation to tiff files

Publication History

  • Lucy Cooper, Susan Costello, Katherine Eremin, Melissa Moy, Kathy King, Marc Walton, Emeline Pouyet Pouyet, Andrew Shortland, and Laure Dussubieux, Numbered Jun Ware - A Technical Study, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, American Institute for Conservation (10.1080/01971360.2020.1748971, November 19, 2020), 60, 4, Pages 255-268, Figure 8, Page 261; Figure 10, Page 266

Subjects and Contexts

  • Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs

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