X-radiograph(s) of "Incense Burner Cut Down from a Zun-Shaped Flower Vase with Flanges"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: Straus.8935
Title: X-radiograph(s) of "Incense Burner Cut Down from a Zun-Shaped Flower Vase with Flanges"
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph, x-radiograph
Date: March 10, 2017
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/357542

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs
Object Number: Straus.8935
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
Permissions: The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Description: X-radiograph Operator: Susan Costello and Lucy Cooper

Material Description: ceramic

Sample for TL?:

Radiation source: Comet tube

Exposure settings:
Bottom 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Side 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Side rotated 1 flange 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Side rotated 2 flanges 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Side rotated 3 flanges 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Top 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Side Propped Up 100 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Side Propped Up 120 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Other Side Propped Up 120 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance

Filtration used: None

Screens used: Lead under plate

Set up/sequencing notes: Shot on floor. Propped up images, object on a piece of foam.

Scanning notes: