Steady hands make light work when restoring 18th-century porcelain

By Annabel Ross
Updated February 7 2016 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am
Trude Ellingsen, conservator of objects at the NGV, readies works for the Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Sculpture exhibition. Photo: Penny Stephens
Trude Ellingsen, conservator of objects at the NGV, readies works for the Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Sculpture exhibition. Photo: Penny Stephens
Trude Ellingsen, conservator of objects at the NGV, readies works for the Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Sculpture exhibition. Photo: Penny Stephens
Trude Ellingsen, conservator of objects at the NGV, readies works for the Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Sculpture exhibition. Photo: Penny Stephens
Trude Ellingsen, Conservator of objects at the NGV working on the pieces of the 18thC Porcelain Sculpture that are to be exhibited. Photo: Penny Stephens
Trude Ellingsen, Conservator of objects at the NGV working on the pieces of the 18thC Porcelain Sculpture that are to be exhibited. Photo: Penny Stephens
A delicate art. Photo: Penny Stephens
A delicate art. Photo: Penny Stephens

The task of attaching tiny, two-millimetre wide fingers to porcelain figures has been a laborious process for National Gallery of Victoria conservator Trude Ellingsen.

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