The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge displays a group of Qing dynasty Chinese vases on a window sill. Lord knows that is where I display all of my fragile porcelain. My windowsill.
The priceless vases from the reign of Kangxi (1662-1722) were (and were is the correct term, keep reading) painted in enamels in the famille verte palette with traces of gilding. They were donated to the museum in 1948 and had become one of its most recognizable exhibits.
A visitor to the museum tripped on his shoelace, tumbled down a flight of stairs and crashed into the vases, smashing them into smithereens.
They is no report that Peter Bogdanovich was in town filming a sequel to What’s Up, Doc.
Whilst the method of displaying objects is always under review, it is important not to over-react and make the Museum's collections less accessible to the visiting public, museum director Duncan Robinson said on Monday.
Whilst?
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