EXHIBITION OF ANTIQUES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 3

EXHIBITION OF ANTIQUES.

The loan exhibition of antiques ** the Art. Gallery in Durham street is still attracting a. great deal of attention from people interests beaiitiful things of the past, and thc attenaancqs arc still giving the promoted satisfaction. This morning their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Blcdisloe, will visit the exhibition at "the invitation of the committee. v." » sThe exhibits are grouped, for toe 6alre of convenience, chronologically, starting with the Elizabethan "Age of Oak, - ' and working throngh the Qneen Anne walnut, Sheraton, Chippendale, to the mahogany of the early_ part of the reign of Queen Victoria. But though the furniture is, th& "iftaul ; ture of.thte. exhibition, it. "Could not be displayed to 'advantage xrithont ; many other things that were people of earlier times. The collection, of samplers, for example, is exceptionally, interesting,- and some of them, are of great value. Among tHe china aire some rerv fine pieces of arid historical interest attaches the Privy Pnrr.c- held !>v the EarT of Roches Eer in IGSO. The pictures inclnde originals bv . Gainsboropgh, Raeburn, Canafetto, iand Remlrrajyit. rffij s 's--.