Mazarin Chest - bibliographies & project related publications

Project related publications (in chronological order)

Shayne Rivers, Boris Pretzel, and Rupert Faulkner, (eds) East Asian Lacquer: Conservation, Science and Material Culture, Archetype Books, forthcoming 2010

Yoshihiko Yamashita and Shayne Rivers, 'The deterioration of urushi surfaces and makie decoration' in East Asian Lacquer: Conservation, Science and Material Culture, Archetype Books, forthcoming 2010

Yoshihiko Yamashita and Shayne Rivers, 'Consolidation of the damaged urushi surface and makie decoration on the Mazarin Chest' in East Asian Lacquer: Conservation, Science and Material Culture, Archetype Books, forthcoming 2010

Julia Hutt 'How many Mazarin Chests were there?' In East Asian Lacquer: Conservation, Science and Material Culture, Archetype Books, forthcoming 2010

Pawel Stachnik, 'Tajemnice lokowej skrzyni' [Secrets of a lacquer chest] in Dziennik Polski [Polish Daily Newspaper, Krakow] 26 June 2009, p.D14

Julia Hutt (2009) 'What's in a Box? The Many Layers of a Seventeenth-Century Lacquer Casket for the European Market', Understanding Art Objects: Thinking Through the Eye', Lund Humphries (London) pp. 43-52

Julia Hutt (2008) 'From the Eight Views of the Xiaoxiang to the Omi Hakkei: A New Interpretation of the Iconography of the Mazarin Chest', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Volume 71, 2006-7, pp. 3-18

Lukasz Bratasz, Roman Kozlowski, Antonina Kozlowska and Shayne Rivers, (2008) 'Conservation of the Mazarin Chest: structural response of Japanese lacquer to variations in relative humidity' ICOM-CC 15th Triennial Meeting New Delhi, India, 22-26 September, Conference Preprints, Vol II, pp 933-940

Yoshihiko Yamashita and Shayne Rivers (2008) 'Consolidation of shell decoration (raden) on lacquer' ICOM-CC 15th Triennial Meeting New Delhi, India, 22-26 September, Conference Preprints, Vol II, pp1033-1040

Nanke Schellmann, (2008) 'Observations on the causes of flaking in East Asian lacquer structures', in V&A Conservation Journal 56 (2008), pp. 11-13

Carolyn McSharry, Rupert Faulkner, Shayne Rivers, Milo S.P. Shaffer, Tom Welton, (2007) 'The chemistry of East Asian lacquer: A review of the technical literature' Reviews in Conservation Number 8, 2007, pp 29-40

Nanke C. Schellmann, (2007) 'Animal glues: a review of their key properties relevant in conservation' Reviews in Conservation Number 8, 2007, pp 55-66

William Hollingworth, 'Joint effort preserves rare lacquer chest' Japan Times, 25 Sept 2006, p.2
'Restoring and preserving our cultural heritage' (2006) European Solvent Industry Group Newsletter, September

Shayne Rivers and Yoshihiko Yamashita (2006) 'A cross-cultural approach to lacquer conservation: consolidation of metal foil decoration on the Mazarin Chest' in The Object in Context: Crossing Conservation Boundaries IIC Congress Preprints, Munich, Germany, 28 August - 1 September 2006, pp. 286-292

Alice Tetlow, (2005) 'The Victoria and Albert Museum's Mazarin Chest Conservation Project' Conservation News, United Kingdom Institute for Conservation, pp. 20-22

Julia Hutt (2005) 'Japanese Export Lacquer in the Victoria and Albert Museum: The Mazarin Chest Project' Arts of Asia, Vol 35, No 5, Sept-Oct 2005, pp 100-106

Shayne Rivers (2005) 'Conservation of Japanese Lacquer in Western Collections - Conserving Meaning and Substance' ICOM-CC 14th Triennial Meeting The Hague, The Netherlands, 12-16 September, Conference Preprints, Vol II, pp 1083-1086

Shayne Rivers, (2005) 'Funding a Collaborative Conservation Project: The Mazarin Chest', V&A Conservation Journal 49 (Spring 2005), p.7

Hutt, Julia, (2005) 'The Japanese Collection of Lacquerware in the Victoria and Albert Museum', The Role of Urushi in International Exchange: 27th International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, December 2003, Conference Postprints, National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Tokyo/Tokyo National Museum, 2005, pp. 62-74

Rivers, S., (2005) 'On the Conservation of the Mazarin Chest' in The Role of Urushi in International Exchange: 27th International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, December 2003, Conference Postprints, National Research Institute for Cultural Property, Tokyo/Tokyo National Museum, 2005, pp. 150-158

Yamashita, Y., (2005) 'On the Plan for the Conservation of the Mazarin Chest' in The Role of Urushi in International Exchange: 27th International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property December 2003, Conference Postprints, National Research Institute for Cultural Property, Tokyo/Tokyo National Museum, 2005, pp. 159-171

Sarah Houlton, 'Illuminating lacquer layers' Chemistry World 1:9 (September 2004) pp.38-41
Rupert Faulkner, 'The Mazarin Chest: Major Anglo-Japanese Conservation Project to Start in 2004' in Perspectives The Japan Foundation London Newsletter 9 (September 2003) p.1

Shayne Rivers, 'Developing a collaborative approach to the conservation of lacquer' V&A Conservation Journal 41 (2002) pp.11-12

Further related bibliographies

Mazarin Chest - Art History
Mazarin Chest - Science
Mazarin Chest - Conservation