Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education: Inventory of the Objects Forming the Art Collections of the Museum at South Kensington |
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15th century 17th cent ALTO-RELIEVO amorini arabesque Bandinel coll BAS-RELIEF Bernal coll blue ground border BOTTLE BOWL brass BRONZE MEDAL BRONZE MEDALLION BRONZE PLAQUE CAMEO carved ivory centre champlevé Chinese porcelain chiselled cinque-cento Circa coloured COVER crimson CUP and SAUCER Date decorated Diam diaper earthenware embossed embroidered enamelled terra engraved enriched EWER Exhibition of 1851 Faenza Flemish Florentine floriated fluted foliage following object frame French German Gigli-Campana Coll gilded gilt metal glazed gold green grisaille Gubbio handle hilt imitation inlaid inscribed inscription Italian KNIFE leather Limoges enamel Majolica Manufactured marble marquetry Minton mounted Obverse orna OVAL OVIFORM Palissy ware PANEL Paris Exhibition pattern perforated PIECE OF SILK PLATE PLATEAU Pottery viii Price quattro-cento relief RELIEVO Reverse richly Robbia scroll Sculpture shield of arms silver gilt Soulages coll STATUETTE stoneware TAZZA terra cotta Urbino VASE Venetian vide Virgin white ground WINE GLASS Wood coll wrought iron yellow
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Page iii - BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.
Page v - Reading-room, are issued at the following rates: — weekly, 6d.; monthly, Is. 6d.; quarterly, 3s.; half-yearly, 6s.; yearly, 10s. Yearly Tickets are also issued to any School at 1Í., which will admit all the pupils at such school on all Students' days ; to be obtained at the Catalogue Sale-stall of the Museum.
Page iv - Future purchases be confined to objects wherein fine art is applied to some purpose of utility, and that works of fine art not so applied should only be admitted as exceptions, and so far as they may tend directly to improve art applied to objects of utility. The decorative art of all countries should be represented.
Page vi - ... account of the origin and scope of that institution will be appropriate in this connection.* The commencement of the collections forming the art-division of the museum dates from the year 1846, when a committee, appointed by the Board of Trade, recommended that a museum should be " formed in connection with the School of Design at Somerset House, which should exhibit to the students of the school, to inquiring manufacturers, artisans, and the public in general, the practical application of the...
Page vii - Educational Foundations of Trade and Industry," London and New York, Harper, 1901. dustrial education, was formally established in 1853, and transferred in 1856 from the Board of Trade to the Committee of Council on Education. In the latter year a purely administrative bill was passed, instituting the office of vice-president of the committee, to which earlier reference has already been made in these notes. Moreover, during the 'fifties, still other distinct gains were made, for the lines on which...
Page vi - Sonlages collection, which was especially rich in majolica ware and specimens of Italian furniture, was brought to England by means of a guarantee- fund, headed by the Prince Consort, in 1856, and finally deposited in the museum. In the year 1857, the department was transferred from the board of trade to the committee of council on education, and shortly afterward the museum and offices were moved from Marlborough House to South Kensington. In 1859, numerous objects were purchased in Italy. In 1860,...
Page iii - After noticing the existence abroad of costly and expensive Museums, especially the Louvre, "where there are galleries not only of pictures and statues but of choice specimens of ancient manufactures, carved works, brass, steel, and iron, work, and numerous examples of industrial art in general...
Page vii - Italy to effect the purchase of such objects, and numerous purchases were made. " 9. In 1860 the Gigli portion of the collection, made by the Marquis Campana, consisting of examples of Italian sculpture, was selected by Mr. Robinson, and purchased for the sum of £6,000. " 10. In 1861 the sale of the Soltikoff collection took place in Palis, and upwards of £5,982 was expended in the purchase of objects from that collection.
Page iv - ... that the aim of the Museum is to make the historical and geographical series of all decorative art complete, and fully to illustrate human taste and ingenuity.
Page v - Photographs, copies or casts, are made of such loans as may be useful for instruction in schools of art, unless the lender objects in writing. Two copies of each photograph are sent to the lender. Permission to copy or photograph objects on loan is not granted to private persons without the sanction in writing of the lender.