Artist Lan-Chiann Wu and furniture conservator Ton Wilmering collaborated on a conservation/restoration project recreating missing Chinoiserie lacquer on a privately-owned, eighteenth-century English serpentine front commode. They used John Stalker and George Parker's Treatise on Japaning [sic] and Varnishing as their main guide. Working with the artist's design drawings, elaborate lacquer decorations were created on the commode's top and drawer fronts using a blend of traditional and modern materials. Decorative motifs were copied and adapted from a matching commode, which was recently acquired by the same owner, because the two pieces of furniture originally may have been a pair. This paper will describe the various steps that were taken in making the new lacquer decorations; ranging from creating the design, to preparing the ground layers, to transferring the design elements, to building, shaping, and toning the raised areas, to applying different gilding techniques on the surface, and to final painting of design details. The authors will also discuss some of the pitfalls encountered during the process.