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International Conference "Nanban. Far East. Close Art", 4-5 October 2019

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On October 4–5, 2019, the Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów hosted the International Conference “Nanban. Far East, Close Art”. The meeting has concluded the proj of the most valuable artefact from the historic Far Eastern collection at Wilanów – the Nanban table.

This piece of furniture, dating from around 1610, is an object of unique artistic quality, among the finest and most important surviving examples of Nanban style in the world. In its shape, it recalls late Renaissance Portuguese furniture, while its technique and decorations  point to Japanese lacquerware (urushi) and Oriental traditions.

Ten years have passed since Victoria and Albert Museum undertook a major project of conservation of the Mazarin Chest (Japanese export lacquerware, ca. 1640). Preservation and conservation of Oriental lacquerware was and still is a challenge for specialists all over the world. The completion of the second project of that scale in Europe provides a great opportunity for deeper reflection on aspects of ethics and aesthetics, as well as the methods and materials used when conserving urushi.

The conservation of the Nanban table from the Wilanów collection provided an opportunity for interdisciplinary scientific research aimed at expanding knowledge about this unique object. The project also helped to expand the network of international specialists focused on Oriental lacquerware.

The symposium was attended by distinguished guests, authorities in the field of lacquerware: Prof. Dr. Monika Kopplin (Münster, Germany), Dr Masako Shôno-Sládek (Cologne, Germany) and urushi conservator Shigeru Kitamura (Nara, Japan). Museum staff and associates presented details of the Nanban Table Conservation Project. Other participants in the seminar were offered the opportunity to present their research and conservation projects during the poster session.

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“The Collaborative Project of Conservation of the Nanban Table from the Collection of Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów” was co-financed by a grant from the Sumitomo Foundation (Japan).

Curator of the conference:
Anna Guzowska
aguzowska[at]muzeum-wilanow.pl

The conference „Nanban. Far East. Close Art” was one of the events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and Japan in 2019




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Conservation of a unique Nanban table from the Wilanów collection

Thanks to the financial support from the Japanese Sumitomo Foundation and cooperation between the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów with outstanding experts in Asian lacquer, it was possible to take the conservation works of the Nanban style seventeenth-century table in the Wilanów collection. It was one of the first conservation projects involving both Japanese and European specialists. It was part of cooperation started in the 1990s and involving science and conservation, between Japan and world institutions that keep in their collections artworks decorated with Oriental lacquer – unique witnesses of early modern contacts between East and West. Owing to exchange of experience and expertise, a strategy for the preservation of those very fragile Oriental artefacts has been devised.

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