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Title: Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Annual report Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Annual report
Subjects: Philadelphia Museum of Art Art
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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occupies the entire space in the North Vestibule. Con-spicuous in this greatly improved display is a case of pottery de-signed and executed by the pupils of the new pottery departmentof the School. In most of the departments of the Museum there has been amarked improvement and growth. Through the efforts of Mrs.William D. Frishmuth, the honorary curator, the collection ofmusical instruments has been greatly enlarged and re-classified,and now occupies the entire space in the Northwest Pavilion.Under the efficient supervision of Mrs. John Harrison the collec-tions of textiles, laces and embroideries have been re-arran^ed.Mr. Edward Russell Jones has been indefatigable in building upthe collection of postage stamps, and wdth the assistance of Prof.Charles E. Dana the collection of book-plates has grown to re-spectable proj^ortions. LABELING THE COLLECTIONS. The re-labeling of the collections has progressed rapidly andseveral experts have assisted in the work of identification and at- 19
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20 tributioD. With the kind assistance of ^Ir. Frederick Rathboneof London, England, the eminent Wedgwood authority, who inMarch of this year visited the Museum, the examples of oldWedgwood have been thoroughly re-arranged and accuratelylabeled. In the collection were discovered a number of unmarkedpieces, which prove to have been made by some of Josiah Wedg-woods best imitators, including Turner, Neale & Palmer, Adams,Spode and the Sevres factory. Some of these are fully equal inworkmanship and material to the genuine productions of thegreat English potter, and are of even greater rarity. The Rev.Alfred Duane Pell, of New York City, the foremost authority inthis country on old European porcelains, has, in his capacity ofHonorary Curator of that department, rendered valuable aid in Bloomfield Moore Collection. CASKET; COPPER. CHAMPLEV^ ENAMEL. SCENES FROM LIFE OF CHRIST. SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 97-22 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ SAMPLE OF LABEL USED IN MUSEUM.Black Card with Gold Letters, S

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