In my December 2023 post, The Art of Making Art Porcelain, I described the ‘finishing and mounting’ process as Step #7. Depending on how many individual molds made up each component of a particular design, this could be quite a complicated process. Not only did each element need to be assembled (‘mounted’) but then that [...]
Although the typical ‘awards season’ is still another month or so away, some things never really change – such as those particularly fragile areas on certain Cybis porcelain sculptures that are distressingly prone to damage. Whether the breakage happens from a not-100%-careful picking up in order to dust the cabinet shelf (I have been guilty [...]
A fair percentage of the messages I receive through this website begin with ‘I have a damaged Cybis, how can I get it repaired?’ Given the fragile nature of these pieces and the vicissitudes of time, this is not surprising. Before I get into the good, bad, and realistic aspects of my answer to these [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 