VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON

Friday 30-Saturday 31 October 2009
Hochhauser Auditorium
10.00-17.30

This two-day conference builds on the achievements of the recently completed Mazarin Chest Project. It will bring together a group of twenty speakers from the fields of lacquer conservation, conservation science and material culture from Australia, North America, Japan, Europe and the UK.

Art historical papers will explore aspects of lacquer history including the trade in lacquer in Asia and Europe. Scientific papers will include lacquer analysis, the use of solvents for cleaning lacquer, stress measurement in lacquer films, and new evidence of the use of South East Asian materials in seventeenth century Japanese export lacquer.

Conservation papers will discuss risk factors for lacquer collections, cleaning techniques, and the photo-degradation of lacquer and potential conservation treatments.

The keynote talk will be given by Dr Christine Guth.

For details about the program, see:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/crossingborders/index.html