Restoration

I recently had the pleasure of restoring a beautiful reproduction of a turn of the century sculpture.  Somewhere along in it's life, a cherubs arm was broken off and repaired.  I'm guessing that's when someone decided to coat it in thick white enamel or lacquer to cover the repair.  The sculpture is pot metal originally painted to look like bronze, which was very common in the past.  The sculptor is Jean Garnier,  A French artist know for huge sculptures in that country.  Assuming it's a copy of a maquette, (small study) for a much larger piece. the details are amazing right down to fingernails, ear canals, and anatomically correct male cherubs.  The stripping of the piece was therefore very labor intensive, but the results were worth it--the piece turned out beautifully in it's reconstructed original "bronzed' finish.  The title of the piece loosely translated  means covetousness, the cherubs are obviously going for something that at one point was in her hand--wasn't able to find pictures of what that was.