A Seventeenth-century Dutch Cabinet Mounted with Export Lacquer

Author Biographies

• Christina Hagelskamp

  Christina Hagelskamp graduated from the University of Applied Science in Potsdam, Germany, with a degree in the Conservation of Wooden Objects. Between 2007 and 2009 she worked as a conservator at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam on both Western furniture and Asian lacquer objects. In 2010, she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, focusing on application techniques of Asian lacquer fragments and japanning on Bernard van Risenburgh furniture. Christina has been Assistant Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2011.

• Paul van Duin

  Paul van Duin has been head of furniture conservation at the Rijksmuseum since 1989. From 1984-89 he was furniture conservator at the British Royal Collection. He read psychology at the University of Utrecht from 1975-79. He was project manager for the Ateliergebouw which houses the Rijksmuseum conservation departments as well as the research department of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (rce) and the Master in Conservation and Restoration of the University of Amsterdam. He is advisor to the Getty Panel Paintings Initiative. He advises other organizations on conservation issues, such as the Amsterdam Royal Palace for the conservation of Louis Napoleon furniture.