David Fry Ceramics

Repairs/Restoration

Pottery and Art Conservation, Restoration and Repair..

The studio is not open to the public, so please email with your enquiry and send photos of the work in need of repair.

Ceramics, Pottery, Art Works, Paintings, China, Figurines, Porcelain, Art Pottery, Sculpture – Restoration and Conservation – studio based in North Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, U.K.

I offer a full service in repairing, restoring and conservation for broken, missing pieces, damaged or items showing wear and tear. Items can be Fired Clay, China, Porcelain, Sculpture, Tiles, Architectural features, Studio Pottery, Leach, Cardew, Lucie Rie, etc., Antiques, Parian Ware, Garden Urns, Objects of Art, Ornaments, Lamps and lights, Meissen, Roman, Medieval, etc. The items can be made from single or a combination of materials including Wood, Terracotta, China, Metal, Stone, Plaster, Marble, Synthetics, Paintings and Works of Art, etc.

I offer a Tidy Repair – Items are repaired fixed together missing areas filled and painted to match in as much as possible, but the finished repair is not invisible. The item will be consolidated for to display however the repair will be visible in most cases i.e. the lines of the joins and replaced parts and the colour matching. However depending on the object’s material and colour/texture a blending in close to invisible repair is occasionally possible. On the whole repairs to white and plain coloured pottery/porcelain the join lines and colouring in will be visible, and on heavily patterned/textured items less so.

NOTE – if its a totally invisible restoration you are looking for, there are many restorers that do offer this service can be found by searching the Internet.

Please note – restored items are only suitable for display, hot liquids, water, high temperatures, direct sunlight, outdoor use, food/cooking use, washing up, etc. will damage the restoration work..

email photos of the damage to the item, so I can assess your enquiry and I will reply by email.

Items can be posted to me, box and pack them well and send by ‘Tracked Post’. Or by arrangement pieces can be brought directly into my studio in North Tyneside. Also some projects/restorations can be carried out on-site.

Please Note – If posting to me I will return the item by ‘signed for’ delivery and in a much larger box than the item. The return postage cost will be extra.

For enquiries and estimates, please email and send photos of the item.

The cost is based on the time taken to repair, so how many pieces the item is in, how large the item is, weather any pieces are missing and need to be remade/modelled/filled and coloured to match in, and if any old glue or repairs have to be removed and cleaned up first. The cost is not based on the value of the item. Please note if the item is in too many pieces repair may not be possible, but I will be able to tell from the photos you send. Many thanks.

Pictures of a recent project to restore a broken classical garden Urn in Knightsbridge, London.