LECTURES ON ANTIQUES.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 3

LECTURES ON ANTIQUES.

Oiip. of the ploasantest features of tlio exhibition of nntinues now open at Austin House, 181-10."! Wakefield Street, in aid of the Y.W.C.A; funds, is the series of talks that has been nrrnnped. Toil fell t at 8 o'clock Mr. S. Stevens -will speak on "Hinte'to Collectors," illustrated by lanteni pliiles. and tomorrow, nlso ft: S p.m., Mr. W. M. Pape, F.R.T.A.S,, will show slides of "Chairs of Four Centuries," making brief remarks in cxnlan-i----tion. Mr. Pase will repeat, his talk on "English Furniture of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" next Monday evening;, and on Tuesday at 3.15 n.m. a paper on "China" will be read. The china section of the exhibition is one of thf most ponulnr. Some wonderful blue Sevres, and Chelsea and Conlport dessert services have been grently admired, while a specimen of the dinner service presented to Now Zealand's first, bishop. Ocorsre AnsriiFtus Sehvyn. when he was a curate over a century ago. hns much historic interest. Xor is an almost comic element lacking when one sees a pair of brown china hotbottles, in the shape of feet, for warminst boots in the days, before improved heating nuide n= move indifferent to winter weathef. The exhibition is open daily between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 7 and 10 l>.m.