Why the cases stand at table height
The display height is deliberately lower than the museum norm — seventy-five centimetres.
The usual case height is designed for a level gaze. Tableware is seen from above in real life — which is why Doroshenko insisted on lower plinths.
The difference is immediate: the decoration on the plate's base is seen whole, not at an angle. But one has to stoop, and benches were placed by two of the cases.
