Table of Contents

Introduction (Bet McLeod and Stefan Röhrs)
A Ciborium in the British Museum (Bet McLeod)
The Vitreous Decoration of the British Museum Ciborium: The Scientific Analyses (Stefan Röhrs)
The British Museum Ciborium: Conservation and Scientific Study (Maickel van Bellegem and Susan La Niece)
Appendix: Analysis of accretions removed during conservation cleaning (Marei Hacke)
The Arabic Inscriptions on the Maître Alpais and the British Museum Ciboria (Venetia Porter)
L’iconographie du Ciboire de Maître Alpais: Nouveaux Points de Vue et Vieilles Questions (Élisabeth Antoine)
Le Ciboire de Maître Alpais: A Scientific Study at the C2RMF (Isabelle Biron, Thierry Borel and Dominique Bagault)
A Christofle Electrotype of the Medieval Maître Alpais Ciborium (Bet McLeod, Marian Campbell and Odile Nouvel)
Appendix: Scientific investigations into an electrotype copy of the Maître Alpais ciborium (Stephan Röhrs, Sophy Wills and Marei Hacke)
Electroforming: The Replication of Ancient Objects by Electrodeposition (Mike Neilson)
The Royal Scottish Museum Ciborium: a Major Acquisition in its Time (Virginia Glenn)
Technological Study of the Ciborium from the Collection of National Museums Scotland (Lore Troalen, Susan La Niece, Rose Lees and Jim Tate)
Appendix: Analysis of the vitreous materials of the National Museums Scotland ciborium (Stephan Röhrs)
The Heritage of ‘Maître Alpais’ – Concluding Remarks (Susan La Niece)

About the Author

Susan La Niece is a metallurgist in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum; Stefan Rohrs was scientist for vitreous materials at the British Museum and is now at the Rathgen-Forschungslabor of the National Museums of Berlin; Bet McLeod is an independent scholar who was a project curator for the Medieval Europe gallery at the British Museum.