MINIATURE TREASURE

Evening Star, Issue 22354, 2 June 1936, Page 8

MINIATURE TREASURE

TITANIA'S PALACE COMMANDS ADMIRATION Though naturally it is invidipus to single oat any commanding exhibit contained in Titania’s Palace, the descriptive beauty created by the minstrel gallery classes this room as one of the highlights of this priceless display. The gallery is a masterpiece of cabinetmaking, and it houses four classical figures made in Italy in the sixteenth century, a remarkable piece of repousse work in silver, and early Italian ivory figures representing three of the senses. A staircase of original design, which has upon it early Italian bronze and silver figures, and a remarkable plaquette representing an Italian warnor, a little more than an inch high, leads to this gallery through a doorway, in which is inset a sixteenth century oval of-engraved rock crystal. Under the rails of the gallery stand a pair ot Chinese vases of the Ming period. The door leading into the chapel is framed in one of the most perfect pieces of hand-wrought silver since the time or Cellini. The minstrel gallery symbolises the ethereal beauty of the palace, which is on exhibition in the millinery salon of Messrs Arthur Barnett Ltd., Only a fortnight remains before tha exhibition closes, and there is every indication, if public patronage continues, that the amount collected will exceed the high totals of the other three centres.