The sun., 1902-03-06
ART TREASURES LOST TO Us.
THE GARLAND PORCELATNS TO
DE SENT ABROAD.
This Peerless Collection. Now on Exhibition
at the Metropolitan Museum. Has Been
Purchased by Duyeen brothers - Price
said 10 he S8OO,O ,OOO- VIII He
Resoid In It's Entirety In London.

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Re.old In It's Entirety In London.
The collection OF Chinese porcelains
formed by the late James A. Garland. dis
tinotly the finest collection in the world,
has been sold by Mr.. Garland's estate.
The purchaser is the firm Of Duveen BIOS,
Of New York and London.
In the sale Of this unapproachable col
Ieotion TO a firm OF dealers, the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art has lost the possession
which gave II distinction among the mu-
seums Of the nations. The collection has
been on exhibition at the Metropolitan
Museum for the past few years and when
after the oath of Mr.. Garland II was learned
that he had not made definite disposition OF
his ceramics. Il was hoped that the collec-
ton would find a permanent place in the
gallery 10 which he had loaned it,
When the Metropolitan Museum became
a beneficiary OF MIR. Rogers's munifcence
IL was taken for granted In many quarters
that the Garland collection would certainly
be added TO its permanent Possessions.
Other art lovers looked and hoped TO see
these works of unrivalled Oriental artists
purchased by some patron OF the Museum
and presented to it.
Dealers and private collectors alert 10
add TO their own accumulations desired
to see the collection put upon the market
at auction here, to give American amateurs
the opportunity to preserve these porcelains
as treasures Of this country, although
scattered among many owners.
The probability is now that the collec-
ton will be sent by the Duveens 10 London,
and that IL will be broken up at auction or
by private sales on the other side Of the
water. The reason for its shipment TO the
British capital will be, since the failure Of any
one here to purchase Il for private owner
ship entire from Mr. Garland's heirs, that
over there there is a fixed and standard
market for such objects OF art, although
the experience Of recent years is that at
such an auction at any European capital
some Of the choicest OF the objects offered
will invariably be bought by or for Ameri-
can collectors, who will outbid British or
Continental opponents, even though 90
per cent. duty awaits the importation of
their purchases on this side.
In Old World capitals and art centres they
have talked Of the Garland collection Of
porcelains at the New York museum, and
enyied New York its treasures. Europe
had it's galleries of paintings that could not
be equalled here. but it could show
no such products OF the Celestial porcelain
makers art.
who negotiated the purchase Of this collec-
tion. was enved Of dealers when 1t became
known among them yesterday that he
had at last, for his firm. got possession Of
tho collection, which he bought on Tuesday.
The purchase price was above 100000.
Exact figures were not obtainable, but
II Ia believed by persons who have good
Information that the sum paid was $500, ,0oo
That sum represents a good profit above
the cost Of the collection to Mr.. Garland,
but II Is not even speculation TO say that
another profit awaits the purchaser.
Conditions have changed rapidly in the
collection OF Oriental porcelains Of recent
years There are few to be had in European
ancient pieces are not disposing Of them
as they once did The present owners
IN the Fowery Kingdom know the value Of
what they have, and the wider admiration
the demand for them
Mr. Garland's family has desired that
the collection be kept together. and did
not wish TO have It put up at auction here.
although Mr.; Garland himself at one time
contemplated its public sale in New York.
Efforts were made to induce men Of wealth
TO purchase the collection entire and pre-
sent ii to a museum, but as none came
forward to do this the estate at last CON-
sented to sell II to Duveen Bros.
Henry Duveen had an advantage over
all the other hungering souls who had their
eyes ever on the porcelains for he In large
part formed the collection for MIR. Garland.
i was work Of fourteen years.. and Mr..
Duveen himself and through his repre-
sentatives secured Europe and hunted
through China to get the treasures Mr.
Garland sought. He knew, therefore, the
cost as well as the relative value Of most Of
than a mere onlooker could know it.
Mr. Duveen said yesterday that he had
purchased the collection for stock. As an
individual, he said, he had hoped with 80
many others that the collection would be
kept complete In this country. but as that
appeared hopeless he was elated TO have
secured possession Of 1t for dispersal by
his Arm.
BE said he still hoped that he might
dispose Of 1t en- bloc, either here or In Lon
don. so that so fine collection might not
be again scattered. but that he could cay
nothing at present beyond the fact that
he had bought it and was very glad to own
II. He said, however, that there was not
disposed OF at auction.
Mr. Duveen said that the collection would
remain at tie Metropolitan Museum only
very short time now. Thousands have
70 admire and to learn from 1t. The ool-
lection occupies seventeen large cases
and comprises nearly 1000 objects.
It is rich In the later Ming productions
and includes few specimens Of the Sung
dynasty. Its perfection Is In it's repre-
sentation Of the achievements OF the color
lists and decorative craftsmen who worked
40 wonderfully In porcelain between the
latter half OF the fifteenth century and
the early part OF the eighteenth.
In the many hued productions OF the
Ching-hw period, the stunning K'ang hid
blue and whites, beautiful specimens o2 the
tdmile uerts Of the same period. and the
delicate egg-shell Of the period of Yung-
ching. the collection presents an education
and a delight. and sounds the strings OF
envy In the eager collector
There are large number Of the ex-
quisite rose-back egg-sheu plates, the
backs OF delicate, roes-tinted enamel,
the centres painted In Mandarin figures,
and around these figures successive bor-
ders In ornamental designs done in many
colore There is an aggregation Of pow
der-blue vases that may be called nothing
lees than superb The examples of the
rose and black families alone would make
the collection celebrated.
Among the black enamelled pieces ia
the famous Red Hawthorn vare,' abso-