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Identification and Creation

Object Number
Straus.8963
Title
X-radiograph(s) of "Flowerpot with Foliate Rim"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
x-radiograph, photograph
Date
January 27, 2017
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357570

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.8963
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 MXR320-26 tube

CR plate type: Carestream Industrex Flex HR (white)


Exposure settings:
Side: 50kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180#seconds 195cm focal distance
Other side: 50kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180#seconds 195cm focal distance
Bottom: 60kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180#seconds 195cm focal distance
Top: 60kV 5mA 3mmFOC 180#seconds 195cm focal distance

Filtration used: none

Screens used: lead under plate

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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs

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