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Relic restoration and preservation is a huge market. Antique Chinese Porcelain, which is regarded as a symbolic type of artefacts representing Chinese art, craft and culture, has attracted significant study into its preservation, crossing the fields of policy-making, science and emerging technologies. In recent years, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has demonstrated its advantages in the restoration of relics made of a variety of materials. However, the study of its implementation with antique porcelain, which not only has different shapes, but also glossy surface and rich colours, still remains in its infancy.

This paper presents the case studies into the application of AM of antique porcelain preservations and creation. The studies include one practice converting the image of a vase on a Chinese painting to a 3D object with AM and another practice that applied AM to replicate an antique Famille-rose porcelain …