Conservation Science in Museum (박물관보존과학)
- Volume 13
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- Pages.1-11
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- 2012
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- 1229-5191(pISSN)
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- 2713-7716(eISSN)
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Conservation Process of Large-earthen ware in Geumgangsa Temple Site - A Study on the Cyanoacrylate Adhesive Used for Large-earthen Ware Joining -
금강사지 출토 대형 토기의 보존 - 대형 토기접합에 사용된 순간 접착제에 대한 연구 -
- Lee, Dahae (Science of Cultural Properties, Chung-Ang University) ;
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Hwang, Hyunsung
(Conservation Science Team, National Museum of Korea) ;
- Shin, Minkyeong (Science of Cultural Properties, Chung-Ang University)
- Received : 2012.08.30
- Accepted : 2012.10.24
- Published : 2012.12.10
Abstract
While the project for registering the unregistered relics that had been stored in the relic storage warehouse was in progress, restoration operations were started for the large size pottery pieces that had been excavated from the Geumgangsa Temple Site and it is attempted to explain the pottery pieces and to introduce the process of the overall conservation treatment. About 600 pieces of large size pottery had been separately stored in more than 40 relic boxes in their original damaged condition without making it possible to figure out their shape, size, usage and quantity at all. Due to the enormous number and weight of the pottery pieces, they were, first of all, pre-classified largely into 6 groups of pottery pieces in consideration of the visible features such as pottery thickness, color sense and glaze brilliance, etc. for each kind of pottery raw material. However, as a result of making them adhere together on a temporary basis, they turned out to be only one piece of pottery in reality. In this restoring process, in order to see if the generally used cyanoacrylate adhesive was in fact safe when a very large, heavy and deformed pottery piece was to be put together, its safeness was checked by examining the adhesion velocity, adhesion strength and dissolution velocity for both from low to high viscosities through preliminary experiments. In order to restore the lost parts after putting the existing pieces together, diversified epoxy resins were used to fit their shapes. Considering that the bottom of the restored relic was shaped to be not flat but round without allowing it to stand alone, an exhibition mount was manufactured so that the relic could be stored stably and used readily for exhibition.
국립중앙박물관에서는 수장고에 보관 중이던 미등록 유물들을 연차적으로 등록하는 사업을 진행하던 가운데 복원 작업이 시작된 금강사지 출토 대형 토기편을 설명하고 전반적인 보존처리과정을 소개하고자한다. 대형 토기는 총 600여점을 40여개의 유물상자에 파손된 상태로 별도 보관하고 있었으며 형태나 크기, 사용 용도, 그리고 몇 개의 토기인지를 전혀 파악할 수 없는 상태였다. 수 많은 토기 조각과 토기 무게로 인해 우선 재질별, 토기 두께와 표면 색감, 그리고 유약 광택도 등 가시적 특징만으로 크게 6개의 토기 편으로 가분류하였으나, 가접합 해 본 결과, 실제로는 한 개의 토기 편임을 알 수 있었다. 이번 복원 과정에서는 매우 크고 무거운 기형의 토기를 접합할 때도 일반적으로 사용되는 순간접착제가 과연 안전한지를 알아보고자 먼저, 예비 실험을 통해 저점도~고점도별 접착속도와 접착강도, 그리고 용해속도를 조사하여 안전성을 확인하였다. 접합 후 결손된 부분의 형태에 따라 다양한 종류의 에폭시 수지를 사용하여 복원하였으며 저부가 편평하지 않고 동그란 형태여서 제대로 서있지 않아 유물을 안정하게 보관하면서도 전시에 바로 사용하도록 전시받침대까지 제작하였다.