and Nigel Bamforth and I'm a senior
conservator in the furniture and wood
section of the Victoria and Albert
Museum we work on great many objects and
tippi's tigris is one of the objects
that we have privileged to work on the
object has come into the storeroom for
some analysis and whilst the object is
here we're looking to take some wood
samples and try and identify some of the
original surfaces of the object the
state of the object as a whole on the
inside we have been taking photographer
Geographic records of the interior so
hopefully this process will give us a
bit more insight into the original
fabric of the object what we are trying
to achieve is to see what layers there
are on the object and what the original
color scheme of the object was in most
areas it is very evident that you can
see this over painting that there's
hardly any areas that you would say
haven't been over painted this is very
recognizable by the depth of the paint
surfaces and the painting over the old
glosses that can be seen round on the
body and on the trousers off the object
areas like that there's a silver band
here this is raised and it looks like a
foil this has been bent over it would be
interesting to know whether this is
something that's been applied or whether
this was original it looks as though
it's something that's been applied I
would have thought and also the health
colour scheme for the body there'd be
numerous whiskers that have been painted
on it and
might be just a romantic interpretation
by a later person who did the
restoration on it learned his his jaws
here the spots have been applied and
they're very basic sort of spots that
have been put on
for the paint analysis it requires
taking a small a very small sample of
the surfaces what my colleague and I
looking at is removing areas from
different parts of the body of both the
tiger and the man we're doing this with
a scalpel and where we'll be embedding
the fragments into little resin like ice
cubes and then these will be ground and
then they'll go to the science
department for analysis
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