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Description: | The city council has large collections of decorative and applied art, again associated within the City Museum but also featured at the Town Hall. The overall collection includes oriental ceramics from the Whalley and Chilton bequests, English ceramics from the Cutts bequest and country pottery from Burton-in-Lonsdale and Scotforth. Other decorative art includes 400 glass ornaments featuring work by the locally renowned glass workshops. The small but significant collection of furniture from Gillows of Lancaster includes chairs, long-case clock cases and writing desks and a drawing series of room layouts. Other locally made furniture features in the collection such as an oak court cup. | Subjects: | Decorative & Applied Arts | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Town Hall
Lancaster,
LA1 1PJ | Telephone: | 01524 582000 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1735 | Go to resource |
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