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THE exhibition as a whole of the Eumorfopoulos Collection of objects of Chinese and Far Eastern art acquired for the nation, announced to take place in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, will be declared open by the Chinese Ambassador on April 17. Not only will some of the pieces now be seen by the public for the first time; but also it is the last occasion on which it will be shown as a single collection. When this exhibition closes at the end of the coming summer, the exhibits will be divided between the Victoria and Albert and the British Museums, and certain of them will be allocated on loan to other museums. This exhibition will supplement the exhibition of Chinese art at the Royal Academy in several directions. The art of the Han and T'ang dynasties, for example, will be much more fully represented; and there will be an extensive series of the pottery burial figures of the Wei dynasty (A.D. 386–535). The Eumorfopoulos collection also affords opportunity for comparison, as it includes example of art from areas which did not come within the scope of the exhibition at Burlington House, such as the art of Korea, little known and not otherwise well represented in Great Britain, and the art of the nomadic tribes of southern Siberia. A charge for admission of Is. will be devoted to the fund for the purchase of the collection, of which at present only one half has been raised. An exhibition of Chinese art is also being held in the City Art Gallery, Manchester. It was opened by the Chinese Ambassador on April 3 and will be on view for a period of six weeks. It consists of some of the exhibits lent to the exhibition at Burlington House by British collectors, together with specimens from collections in Lancashire and Cheshire.
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Exhibitions of Chinese Art. Nature 137, 607 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137607b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137607b0