Just Click the Like Button Below. The ascertainment of the age of wooden African art objects. Further analyses made by the laboratory. Ow to take wood samples. Useful information for African art collectors.

The most complete and updated handbook on the ascertainment of authenticity. In art and antiques with 540 pages and more than 2,000 colour illustrations. In 3 volumes and 3 languages. This book aims to be your trusted expert, providing you with clear and well-founded answers based on objective evaluation criteria as to authenticity. The texts draw for the most part on the experience of. These texts were published in 1997-2003 when the.

African Artworks in Bronze, Stone and Ceramics. A section of the Museo dï Arte e Scienza. The Museo dï Arte e Scienza. Dedicated to the authenticity of African artworks in bronze, stone and pottery. Its scientific laboratory has developed valid methods. For telling authentic African objects from copies and fakes. Part I ï African bronze Objects. There does not exist any scientific method .

In the World of Antiques. Museo dï Arte e Scienza. The following pages provide brief introductions to the theme. Bjects in ivory, bronze and other metals.

Es bestehen viele Möglichkeiten, die Echtheit von. Das geschulte menschliche Auge erkennt den Stil. Das Auge beurteilt auch die Rissbildung und andere Alterserscheinungen der Farbschicht, die wichtige Merkmale für die Echtheit der Gemälde darstellen. Auch wissenschaftliche, chemische und physikalische Analysen sind heute bereits die erste Wahl zur Echtheitsbestimmung wertvoller Gemälde.

Today it is possible to recognize authentic ivory. Musical instrument in ivory, Africa. Sometimes, in addition to elephant tusks, the horns of other animals and some kinds of bone are inaccurately included in the category of ivory. Furthermore, increasingly perfect synthetic materials are being produced today which cannot be distinguished from ivory by their appearance alone.