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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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ether in the room in which the coinsare now stored while arranging, the numerous examples of goldsmithwork, jewelry and plate which are at present on view in various partsof the Museum. Mr. Charles D. Clark has kindly consented to super-vise this work. Last year through the kindness of Mr. Frank Miles Day, we werepresented with detailed drawings, most carefully and accurately madeby two of his students while traveling abroad, of the pillar aroundwhich winds the stair to the Pulpit of Nicola Pisano in Siena. Thesedrawings were prepared with a view to having a pillar moulded to com-plete the model of the staircase and pulpit which we already have.It should be remembered that permission to copy this staircase wasobtained for us by a former Philadelphian, the late Miss Anne HamptonBrewster ; and that it was an exceptional favor to receive. Models ofthe pulpit can be bought from any of the authorized dealers in plastercasts, but permission to take castings of the staircase was never before
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13 granted to any one. This Museum, therefore, was the first to exhibitthe two parts together—the pulpit and the staircase—just as they standin the cathedral. With the column added, the structural adaptation ofthe winding stairs will be shown ; and I trust that it will be possible tomake this addition during the coming year.* We still have stored, in the boxes in which they were shipped,the large Siamese pagoda and the Japanese booth which the gener-osity of one of the patrons of the Museum enabled us to purchaseat the Columbian Fair. The pagoda was bought with the view ofhaving it erected in the middle of the South Vestibule where it wouldbe an imposing and attractive figure. The booth is interestmg asshowing the architectural methods of the Japanese. Means should beprovided to place both these structures in position. Mr. John Struthers, although no longer officially connected withthe Museum, has shown his continued interest in it in a very practicalway by presenting us with a fi

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