Rise in Chinois Splendour at Marshall & Snelgrove’s

I popped into the Museum of London the other day – hadn’t been since school!! It’s still a great museum and the new recreation of a Pleasure Garden is superb. Anyway, of course it’s the China-related stuff that catches my eye. Lovely to see they have a a Chinese styled panel that once adorned the sumptuous left (elevator to those who must) at the Marshall and Snelgrove department store in the 1930s. Marshal and Snelgrove (the original M&S!!) was on Oxford Street and the panel remained until 1974. It’s available as a greeting card by the way. No details of the artist though I’m afraid.