EXHIBITION OF ANTIQUES.
The loan exhibition of antiques at the Art Gallery in Durham street is interesting alike to the amateur and the connoisseur in art and craftsmanship of the past,, and the excellent collection is well worth a visit. Yesterday their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Bledisloe, paid a visit to the Gallery. 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, Chippendale, to the mahogany of the early part of the roign of Queen Victoria. But though the furniture is the main feature of the exhibition, it coin not be displayed to advantage without the many other things that were used by people of earlier times. The collection of samplers, for example, is exceptionally interesting, and somo of them are of great value. Among the china are some very fine pieces of Chelsea, and historical interest attaches to the Privy Purse hold by thb Earl of Eochester in 1680. The pictures include originals by Gainsborough, Eaeburn, Canaletto, and Rembrandt.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 12 August 1932, Page 15
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