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Contents:
Introduction
Paul van Duin (ed.)
Towards an understanding of Western-style furniture made in Asia
Amin Jaffer
Conservation of an ivory-clad drop-front secretary from Vizigapatam, India
Kathy Z. Gillis and David Park Curry
‘Picking up the pieces’
The first steps in collection management for seven museums in Jakarta, with the emphasis on the kolonial furniture in the Museum Sejarah Jakarta
Martijn de Ruijter
Tortoiseshell imitations
Elisabeth Grall
Tortoiseshell and imitation tortoiseshell
Donald C. Williams
Experiment on the removal of beeswax and the restoration practice on an aogaizaiku urushi box
Mariko Nishide
Removal of varnish from japanned and lacquered surfaces: principles and practice
Shayne Rivers
‘Sawed, divided, cut, cleft and split asunder’
Eighteenth-century Chinese export lacquer screens in Europe – two restoration cases
Irmela Breidenstein
Mahogany in Jamaica was like gold in the reign of Solomon
John M. Cross
English cane chairs, a meeting of Asian and European traditions
David Dewing
A typical piece of Dutch furniture, isn’t it?
Pol Bruys
Domestic interiors at the Cape and in Batavia 1602-1795
Introduction to the exhibition, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,
October 2002 – February 2003
Deon Viljoen
