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What am I actually looking at here? I see a rough, pitted, badly damaged surface with smooth, white stuff showing where it's cracked away. Is the smooth inner l
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
What am I actually looking at here? I see a rough, pitted, badly damaged surface with smooth, white stuff showing where it's cracked away. Is the smooth inner layer part of the original, a solid object with a decorated exterior? Or is the inner part a modern reconstruction, and the outer all that remains of a hollow original?
- wyattpeak 8y agoThe smooth surfaces are modern filler to make the object whole. The pitted and damaged surfaces are pieces of the original. It'll be hollow since they thought it was a vase. It's unlikely the filler is solid, these reconstructions are generally made as faithfully as possible to the original without too much synthesis. So it should be the same shape as the original is presumed to have, but no engravings or anything which might be unreasonably speculative.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThanks!