Siamese Chest

Category: Conservation

This lacquered wooden chest features one painted lacquered side and three sides adorned with applied mosaics, including mirror mosaic and shell tiles. The chest, belonging to a private client, arrived in a significantly deteriorated condition, exhibiting multiple losses and surface accretions.

The client’s primary request was for stabilisation and cleaning, to restore the chest as a decorative element for interior use.

Treatment included

Stabilisation of the lid, cleaning and treating corroded hardware, cleaning and consolidating the glass mirror mosaic, cleaning shell tesserae, cleaning and consolidation of the lacquer, infills and retouching.

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