There is a long history of produce and use wood lacquer in China.However,wood lacquer is easy to deteriorate because of its organic properties,especially the half waterborne wood lacquer is hard to be preserved in the dry area of the northern China.A lacquered coffin,which unearthed from a Ming Dynasty tomb in Shijingshan District,Beijing,has various damages.In order to prevent the further deterioration and provide a scientific conservation plan of this lacquered coffin,which is rare in the lacquer relics in northern China.The paper mainly reviewed methods and it's limitation of the conservation and restoration for wood lacquer artifacts in China as tries to provide solid theoretic approach for the conservation and restoration.
Wood lacquerDehydration method for wood bodySoften method for lacquerware coated layerReview