Open Question: What is the best way to remove black soot fire damage from antique hand painted bronze figures?




   I recently had a kitchen fire at home which spread black smoke and soot into an ajoining sitting room.  I have numerous Nepalese & Tibetan c19th antique bronze figurines which are now covered with fire soot.  As these bronzes are also hand painted using traditional ground stone colours (applied to their outer-faces)  I am reluctant to use any water based products including plain water!  I have not attepted anything as yet, not even a soft brush and so any GOOD advise would be much appreciated.  The soot has also covered porceline items of antiquity and other metalware such as perfume & snuff bottles.  Some of which date back to the c17th . . .  H.E.L.P!!!  Please!





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