Yuk! Tar splashed on Alabaster Sculpture!

After the last wild fire, we took in an alabaster sculpture that had been splashed with molten tar.  What a mess!  The hard surfaced stone allowed us to soften the tar with paint thinner and carefully pick off the spots. A risk to doing this with solvents is to dissolve the tar and stain the stone... so you have to do a little test to make sure you don't create more difficult problems. After some work it cleaned up beautifully!