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[May 2004]
Major Porcelain Collection Given to Museum
The National Art Collections Fund (or Art Fund), the largest independent art charity in the UK, has given The Bowes Museum (Barnard Castle, Co Durham, England) the Lady Ludlow Collection of porcelain, one of the most distinguished collections of its type in the country.
Built up by Lady Ludlow mainly in the period following the First World War, this remarkable collection comprises around 500 outstanding pieces from major English manufacturers such as those at Bow and Chelsea, and is valued in the region of 1.5 million.
A selection from the collection will have its first public showing since residing at Luton Hoo at this year's International Ceramics Fair & Seminar at London's Commonwealth Centre, taking place from 10-13 June 2004.
Among the 45 pieces on display there will be figures of shepherds and shepherdesses, dancers, cooks, birds, scent bottles, a trinket box, commemorative teapots and mugs, tea and coffee wares and several large vases painted with classical and mythological scenes.
The Bowes Museum already possesses one of the finest collections of porcelain in the UK - around 5,000 fine pieces which were acquired by John and Josephine Bowes in Paris in the period 1862-74.
ENDS