The masterpieces of silver, enamel and micromosaic from the Gilbert Collection, including the gates, are to go on display in a revamped V&A gallery. The Gilbert Galleries will include what is described as Britain’s first permanent museum display “showing complicated histories and research into looting”. Researchers have been looking at about 80 items in the Gilbert Collection where provenance was uncertain. The Gilberts, who were fashion entrepreneurs in London before moving to Los Angeles in the late 1940s and becoming successful property developers, began collecting “beautiful things” in the 1970s and donated what had become one of the world’s greatest...
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