Crockery Wall Mounts (process/examples?)
Hey All, We're in the middle of a permanent collection reinstallation (early on enough that I'm still sane) and a portion of this will include a large salon wall of export porcelain. I'm getting started on tackling some of the bowls and plates which will need a fairly traditional brass mount. However that's not something anyone on our team has made previously, and looking throughout the museum, there aren't any examples of already made mounts to examine. I've been trying to find some resources as to how these are generally designed and executed but surprisingly coming up short on much other than some blurry images from videos of prior IMF conferences. Would anyone happen to have any source of info that may be helpful, or some shots of assembled (or disassembled) mounts that could shed some light on how I may want to proceed? At the moment I've just gotten started with doing profiles for a sort of simple inverted Y to get a bit of practice in, but now I'm just kind of looking at these pieces trying to figure out how they would best be assembled, what additional things should I be taking into account. 🤷 We're a relatively small institution and I've been trying to build up out mountmaking capabilities over the last couple years, but we're obviously still pretty inexperienced.
Hi John - Mair La Touche here. Let me suggest that you talk to the folks at Ely, Inc. in Upper Marlboro, MD. They are now where all our Benchmark products can be found. MountBlanks can be seen here: https://www.benchmarkately.com/collections/benchmark-mountblanks . That can give you an idea of a standard solution for wall-hung plate mounts. I don't know for certain but I'd guess a conversation with them about your specific problems might be useful. Tell them hi from me if you do get in touch. Best of luck with your project.