X-radiograph(s) of "Flowerpot with Compressed Globular Body and Flaring Mouth (Zhadou)"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: Straus.8980
Title: X-radiograph(s) of "Flowerpot with Compressed Globular Body and Flaring Mouth (Zhadou)"
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph, x-radiograph
Date: March 24, 2017
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/358046

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs
Object Number: Straus.8980
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Description: X-radiograph Operator: Susan Costello and Lucy Cooper

Duration of session: 30 min

Total number of exposures: 4

Material Description: ceramic

Radiation source: Comet tube

Exposure settings:
Side 80 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Other side 60 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Bottom 80 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance
Top 80 kV 5 mA 180 seconds 75" focal distance

Filtration used: none

Screens used: lead under plate

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

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 3, Page 258; Pigure 9, Page 262