New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-01
ART SALES IN LONDON
Gems of 0ppenheim Collection
Will Realize Big Prices.
MANY "FINDS" ARE LIKELY
Romney's Portrait of Lady
Anna de la Pole Expected To
Be Years Sensation.
by Cable 10 The Tribune.l

London, May 31.--One Of the most
important sales Of this season will be-
the dispersal Of the Oppenheim collec-
ton at Christie's from June 10 to IL
While according to the standards q,
the Cavendish- Bentinck, Beckett DENT.
son, Lelong, Cronier, Kann and Douce,
collections the Oppenheim sale will not
deliver the goods" still, owing to the
fact that objects Of art Of real value aro
becoming more rare in the auction
market every day, this dispersal ia
quite likely to set another record, az
least on the financial side.
In the Doucet sale Mr.. Wildensteiu
won suite of eighteen Beauvais pieces
Of Louis XVI at $4,000 francs after
much hysterical bidding. The Open.
helm suite Of Louis XIV, seven pieces,
with tables, Will provoke another con-
test to equal it. Two decades ago
there would have been a great fuss over
a Louis XIV secretaire by the crafts
man. David de LuneviIle (more prop.
erly David Roentier), but the "Opens
helm specimen will probably fetch
twenty times the prices brought at the
Cavendish- Bentinck sale.
Some Chinese Vases.
Big prices are expected for the three
Mazarin blue vases Of Louis XIV. once
In the Duke Of Abercorn's collection,
Two famille noire vases, Kang-Hc and
Louis XIV ormolu, would soothe the
savage breast Of a Chinese revolutions
airy, and there are clocks enough to,
time moments Of spiendor or crisis
Louis XIV tables worth few hundred
dollars not long ago will probably bring
thousands. There Is mercifully moth
ing alleged TO have belonged to Marie
Antonette, the Pompadour or the
Maintenon. A pair Of famille ross
Mandarin jars, however, once were in
a palace when the Manchu dynasty was
triumphant. Encoignures, commodes
and perfume burners suggest the lux
uries Of the boudoirs Of Versailles
nymphs, and small marqueterie tables
their games-at which the prizes were
but never mind
There will be many finds" in the
unemphasized lots. The expert will
know them, as he did in the Taylor
sale, when a Persian silk sacred carpet
attracted every Armenian from every
bazaar, only to discover that the Du-
veens knew as much and were pre-
pared to give $4,000 for It.
Highly Priced Landscape.
Two Falconet-like figures OF a pair
Of nymphs are apt to cause Juror.
AS for the Oppenheim pictures. TO be
sold on June Is, It suffices to lay stress
on the Hobbema woody landscape
which as far back as the George Per-
kins sale, in 1890, was held to be worth
sl6,5Oo.
After the Oppenheim sale at Chris
ties is concluded, what IS expected TO
be the great picture sensation of the
year will come on the boards. This
will be Romney's full length portrait
Of Lady Anna de la Pole, painted in
1885. The picture shows the lady after
her marriage IN a white satin dress,
puffed white muslin sleeves and a pale
green sash, leaning on pedestal
There is a landscape background. The
picture was always hung at Shuts,
House and never publicly exhibited.
The present owner, Sir Frederick
Arundel de la Pole, has refused several
money offers for private sale. but has
decided TO put II in the auction market
At the same time will be sold hopp-
ner's portrait Of Mrs. Hoppner, forms
ing part Of the estate Of ]. H. B. CHRIS
tie, who died in September, 1912. and
who was the last member OF tho
Christie family to be associated with
the Christie firm Of auctioneers.