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Description: | Local significance and international interest
The collection aims to provide a broad representative view of the ways in which people have clothed themselves and decorated their homes, to demonstrate the full range of materials, techniques and styles used to show the range of types and qualities from elite, custom-made products to demotic, mass-produced ones.
Most of the material in the collection is British, but a substantial element of the collection reflects the rich cultural diversity of the local population. There is also a collection of oriental items. The collections include clothing and textiles, ceramics, glass, metalwork, furniture, musical instruments, and folk art. Items of importance are:
The Broughton collection of drinking glasses
Textiles and clothing
Japanese artefacts
Ceramics
Indian sub-continent collections especially Gujerati material
Contemporary crafts
Dryad collection of arts, crafts and 20th century desighn from around the world.
Arts and Crafts collection centered on the work of Leicester - born designer Ernest Gimson and his associates.
Mauruice Marinot glass collection
Lion mask suite of furniture. | Subjects: | Ceramics Textiles Folk art Decorative arts Furniture Textile arts Glass Costume Musical instruments Crafts Metalwork (product) | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0116 247 3005 | Telephone: | 0116 225 4900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5135 | Go to resource |
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