Back to Kelmarsh yesterday – I wrote about my first visit earlier in the year – and with a much clearer purpose. For the first, main
display of the collection, we have decided to focus on the ceramics/porcelain
elements of the collection. As the main room we’re focusing on is the Dining
Room/Hare Krishna Room, porcelain seems to fit so well.
The things that really stood out for me with the porcelain
were the consistent use of flowers/plants and fruit. The others were animals and recurrent colours.
Other things of note in what I saw today were the general
number of portraits in such a range of styles and sizes and ages, and the
cockerels. It is, of course, a symbol of
the Coventry family, and it looks like they must have collected lots of them,
in different sizes and media.
