EXHIBITION OF ANTIQUES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 10 August 1932, Page 9

EXHIBITION OF ANTIQUES.

So popular has proved the loan exhibition of antiques at the Art Gallery in Durham street that it is likely that it will be continued for a part, if not the whole, of next week. Yesterday many of the earlier visitors to the exhibition paid their second and third visits, and others made their first acquaintance with the old treasures on display. The exhibits are grouped, for the sake of convenience, chronologically, starting with the Elizabethan "Age of Oak," and working through the Queen Anne walnut, Sheraton, to the mahogany of the early part of the reign of Queen Victoria. But though the furniture is the main feature of the exhibition, it could not be displayed to advantage without the many otner things that were used by people of earlier times. The collection of samplers, for example, is exceptionally interesting, and some of them are of great value. Among the china are some very fine pieces of Chelsea, and historical interest attaches to the Privy Purse held by the Earl of Eochester in 1680. The pictures include originals by Gainsborough, Baeburn, Canaletto, j and Bombrandt.