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Arts Society Saffron Walden Lecture

17/05/2023 @ 11:00 - 12:00

- £10

JACKY KLEIN 


SPLENDOURS AND SECRETS OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION
The UK’s Royal Collection contains over a million objects – paintings and works on paper, tapestries, furniture and jewels, photographs and decorative arts, carriages, weapons and armour, clocks and musical instruments, manuscripts and books.  This talk reveals the dramatic histories, plots and intrigue of some of the most unexpected and spectacular objects that make up one of the world’s most important art collections.  We’ll delve into the back stories of a tiara smuggled across revolutionary Europe, an Italian masterpiece accidentally rediscovered, the world’s most extravagant doll’s house, drawings made in invisible ink, Faberge eggs made for the Russian Imperial family, porcelain pheasants from China that once decorated Brighton’s Royal Pavilion, a royal coach containing precious fragments of the Mary Rose and Canterbury Cathedral, and a grasshopper wine cooler at the very cutting edge of modern design art.

Non-members welcome at £10 per person.

If you are a non-member and would like to reserve a place, please email secretary@artssocietysw@gmail.com

Details

Date:
17/05/2023
Time:
11:00 - 12:00
Cost:
£10
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Organiser

Arts Society Saffron Walden
Email
secretaryartssocietysw@gmail.com

Venue

Friends Meeting House
High St
Saffron Walden, CB10 1AA
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Details

Date:
17/05/2023
Time:
11:00 - 12:00
Cost:
£10
Event Categories:
,

Organiser

Arts Society Saffron Walden
Email
secretaryartssocietysw@gmail.com

Venue

Friends Meeting House
High St
Saffron Walden, CB10 1AA
+ Google Map
View Venue Website