CONSERVATION CASE STUDY

Discovering Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Royal Collection

Conservator working on an eleborate hat-box

In 2016, Royal Collection Trust published a three-volume catalogue of the Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Royal Collection, written by John Ayers.

This film looks at the work of some of the teams who supported this publication behind the scenes, with the work of the conservation teams in preparing pieces for photography and inclusion in the catalogue.


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