The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
A CANFIELD PEACH.BLOW GONE
LITTLE S3.OOO VASE MISSING
SINCE THE RAID
N Was In n Cabinet In Ills Private
Rooms and About the Only Valuable
In the case That a I'Onnoisseur Could
safely Carr, or IN Ills Pocket.

zens' Union. and Police Inspector Brooks
and his land of raiders were ransacking
Richard 4. Canfcld's house last Monday
right for gambling rarapherualia, some
body apparently robbed the house Of a
peach blow vase valued AZ 1900
The robbery was discovered on Friday
evening. while Mr.. Garfield was showi ~
a friend his collect jon of furniture and porce-
aiEs. The guest had been looking at
some of the larger Of Mr.. Canfeld's porce-
iains and asked:
And where are the peach blows OF which
] have heard 80 much2'
Il fear you have mistaken the place,
replied the art collector. 1T is well-known
in the art world that have no collect ion Of
porCelains | have Just few pieces that
I've set down here and there 20 brighten
up my rooms, and Of peach blows have
only two fair specimens Here il one and
there is"
Mr. Garfield got no further He stared
at an empty shelf of a cahiuet before whit h
he and his friend stood and looked en-
tremely annoyed. After moment, he
continued:
Il fnd ! can show YOU only one of the
peach blows. The other seems TO have
disappeared. My housekeeper has proba-
bly, put il away. III speak TO her about
It in the morning and when you are in again
] hope ] shall be able to show II to you
And yet II seems odd that she should have
put away that particular piece and left the
others 1t was pretty fragile, however,
and maybe she feared the gentlemen who
honored ne by their presence the other
evening would mist AXE it for a roulette
wheel and smash il
Yesterday morning Mr.. Garfield asked
his housekeeper, colored woman who
has been in his employ fifteen years. what
she had done with the vase. She is the
only one of his house servants, except a
valet who is allowed in Mr. Canfields pri.
yate APARTMENTS The woman said she
supposed il was where il had always been.
Al least. she hadn't touched il. Then Can
field questioned his valet He knew no
more about the vase than the housekeeper
The master Of the house then concluded
that the vase had been stolen and it didn I
take him long to make up his mind that
sorne one who was in the house while the
raiders were there was the thief. There
were lot of folks in the house.
The room from which the vase was stolen Is
the front room on the third floor. The room il
the parlor of suite Of four rooms taking up
the entire floor. which Mr.. Garfield Uses for
his private apartments, and In which is
about half Of his collection of old furniture
and porcclains The rest Of the collection
l. AZ his homo m ProviJsuc,. IL Garfield
Is well known as a gambler in this country,
he is even better known in Europe as an art
collector. Much has been printed about he
man but almost nothing about his art
collection. The suite from which the peach
blow vase was stolen contains, among other
things. collection of eighteenth century
Chippcndale, for which MIR. Garfield once
refused an offer Of $3.50 600 made by the
president Of one Of the large trust compa MES
Mr.. Garfield, in something more than a
dozen wears, has picked up, principally in
the art centres of Europe. what he protests
not a collection of porceains, but which
cost him between $50 900 and $40 900.
tie Var" which was stolen stood In an
open Chippendale cabinet against the
north wall Of the room. In the cabinet
Mr Garfield keeps all but four of his twelve
rose plates. "a they are called by collectors,
TWO of them having the very rare seven
borders These plates represent an art
nat even China, which created II, has for
gotten The cabihet also contained the
other peach blow, which was ono the prop
crtv Of Mrs. Mary Jane Morgan. whose
wonderful collection of pictures and porce-
ANS v az sold az the American Art Gal
cries in 1850 At that sale the pcach-blow
which Mr.. Garfield 81 i'll has was purchased
10y Mrs. Pope, the blDophile Of Brooklyn
When her collection of books and few
porcelains was sold four or fvr years ago
Mr. Garfield bought the peach blow, a
writer's vase, a. 1t is technically known
for $500
The possession of che peach-blow only
gave Mr.. Garfield a desire Tor another and
when he went 10 Europe he He'd on Dick
h.AEl' or I'M aIaHNN in
more street, London, and told him he
wanted a pcach-blow vase. The dealer
said
Some time ago | got similar com
mission from collector in Manchester,
and the best | could do was TO pick UP in
Paris a vase that had a fracture in the neck
Just below the mouth. My customer took
II and later found perfect vase himself
Then he brought back the one he had bought
from me, directing me 10 sell IL for 1900
We're II not for the fracture, it would be
worth five or six times that, and a. 1t IL IL
will be worth considerable more than that
III "A few years, for its colorlng Is "a ex-
quisite, and is shape as graceful as any
peach-blow have ever seen.
Mr.. Garfield examined the vase and
bought It, II IL about seven inches long,
about two inches in diameter. tapering
from its greatest diameter to a base so
snall that II will not stand by itself II
must have "A standard TO rest in. Mr.
Garfield bought the vase for two reasons.
first, because OF its great beauty, and
second. that he might have for his own
a standard of peachblow glazing by which
he could Judge any other specimen that
might h. offered to him. In speaking of
his loss yesterday he said:
Il could tell the vase in n minute even
if 1t were among thousand, ! never
Jaw another with just the same coloring
Toward the neck Of the vase the bloom
Of the peach shades of 10 "A nothing of
green. about the same shade of green which
YOU see in a Roquefort cheese. Besides
that. it was evidently meant by the maker
TO rest in a standard. for at the very bottom
the glazing Is of. While the vase cost me
only 81 co., its value has increased since |
bought II and wouldn't have taken s. 600
for Il, because l don't know where could
get another
II was The only piece on the cabinet
small enough for a person to slip easily
into his pocket. That may have been the
reason why II was stolen The fellow may
have conc u led that he had tn have some
piece of my furniture or bric-a -brac a. a
souvenir Of that raid and took my little
peach.bow a. tho easiest TO carry away
But in the mob that was here the thief
wouldn 7 have had much difficulty in gcttin {
out Of the house with "A large piece, and
when think of that, | am rather forced
10 the conclusion that some person, having
an appreciation Of its value. is the perSo,
who took it.