LOAN EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART
Queen Mary’s Interest
I Dominion Special Service. Auckland, November 11
Interest will attach to Ihe forthcoming loan exhibition of Chinese art Jn the main centres of New Zealand with the announcement that Her Majesty Queen Mary wishes to lend something from her private collection. Advice to this effect has been received by the organiser of the exhibition, Captain G. Humphreys-Davies, Clevedon. It is hoped to open the exhibition in the Auckland Museum before Christmas. Recent additions to Hie collection of exhibits already in New Zealand include a very tine bronze statue of Kwan-Now, goddess of mercy, which belongs to Dr. Blaxland, Sydney. It bears an inscription stating that it was made in 620 A.D.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 41, 12 November 1936, Page 10
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119LOAN EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 41, 12 November 1936, Page 10
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