A makitra reassembled from eleven shards
The largest ceramic exhibit is assembled from fragments, and the joins were deliberately left untinted.
Eleven shards were assembled into a vessel missing two sections of wall. The gaps were not filled with colour-matched plaster — they were left open.
The museum's reasoning: a tinted join makes an object look whole and be false. An open join shows what survived and what did not — and that matters more than the look in a case.
