APPROPRIATE SETTINGS
DISPLAYS AT VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM NZPA Special Correspondent
Rec. 7.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 27. The Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington is now adopting the policy of displaying all its major collections on the ground floor in galleries or rooms hung with tapestries appropriate to the period and with furniture of the period set out along the walls. Galleries recently opened contain exhibitions of Islamic art and Continental art during the period 1570 to 1700. The Islamic exhibition includes pottery from Persia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Turkey, and Southern Spain, damascene metal work, woodwork, and carved ivories. The Continental collection, set out in a series of rooms hung with Brussels, Paris, and Venetian tapestries, includes many choice pieces of period Continental furniture together with china, pottery, and glass, mostly Italian and Northern European.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27274, 28 December 1949, Page 5
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