New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-30
Collections Pooled for Elk
hibition and Sale at the
American Galleries.
DISPERSAL BEGINS
NEXT SATURDAY
Crowley, Mendonca, Kelly and
Other Collectors Are
Represented.

crowded with one of those multifarious
bodies of art objects which turn up
when several different collections are
pooled, so to say, for exhibition pur-
poses. The sale, which will begin Sat
urday afternoon and will continue
through a number of sessions. Will dis
perse the artistic possessions Of Tim
othy F. Crowley, the lats Eugene Kelly,
Senior Salvador Mendonca and others.
II will give the public an opportunity
to purchase all manner of things,
paintings. antique ana modern furni-
ture, ceramics, prints and miscel-
laneous art objects. The public will
welcome the chance. There are al
ways interesting items In an array Of
this sort.
Perhaps the most striking episode in
the diversified mass is that supplied
by the artistic and costly furniture,
which would attract attention indeed
if only by the main force Of size and
color. II would certainly be difficult to
miss the famboyant effectiveness OF
the six chairs and sofa of the early
eighteenth century French period, COW
cred as they are with boldly figured an
tique velvet in red and gold. More
modest than these, and more pleasing.
in fact, probably the most pleasing Of
all-is an early eighteenth century
Flemish verdure tapestry, rich in color
ing of soft browns and greens with
- d.
part the note struck by the chairs is
the predominant one throughout. An
Italian marble doorway of Renaissance
design and the marble mantel of the
same period. are loaded with a detail
q, of medsllions, trophies, arabesques, bas-
kets of fruit and overripe knick-
q. knacks. A rich oak panelling for room,
likewise spoken of as Italian Renais-
sance, was executed with painstaking
care that warrants much respect. 1t is
relief to find in another direction a
refined winged rocker with caned back.
From these French and Italian Re-
naissance surroundings the Isitor
drops with an amused surprise into
the atmosphere of "our late Queen"
For Timothy Crowley's Wedgwood and
ceramics and Eugene Kelly's art prop
erty are mid-Victorian in spirit, if
sometimes not in actual date. OF the
Wedgwood perhaps the most interest
ing pieces are the "Medusa's Head"
and the "Omphale in the Lions Skin,"
modelled by Flaxman, and Neale Port
land vase. There is, also, much typi-
cal lustre ware, some remarkably good
pewter and two amusing Chinese pot
terry parrots, who seem to have read
justed their feathers when they reared
| IL l,rl 1h
Eugene Kelly, though choosing very
different subjects, had much the same
taste as Timothy Crowley. Mezzctints,
| by Purcell. w. Barnard, s. W. Rey-
nolds and s. A. Edwards, after Gre axe;
stipple engravings in colors by j. r..
Smith and Rowlandson, an illustra-
tion by Charles Keene- and a typical
Hogarth engraving called "Tho an
ragged Musician" are all excellent ex-
amples. The collection, however, had
more cheerful variety of scope. Not
far away is another room showing his
eclectic taste. Elaborate Chinese
needle work, woven panels of birds,
are there, together with an extraor-
binary embroidered velvet dress Of the
Spanish seventeenth century, set Of
ecclesiastical vestments of marked
beauty and Venetian brocade chasu-
Bile.
Especially in sympathy with the con
tents Of this latter room are those
objects in which Senior de Mendonca
interested himself. A chest for armor,
for example, first attracts the visitors
eve. With silver and silver-plate, how
ever, he showed his taste at its best;
silver spoons, butter knife and WINE
testers. Also there are many delicate
iy made sets of plates and glassware
"a vase which was as though II had
been CONCEALED Of air or condensed OF
sunbeam notes or moulded of the light
of the open plain or peeled from the
white pearl" l. an Arabian writer's de-
scription of iridescent glass, accord
ing 10 Azeez Khayat, whose collection
Of ancient glass is to be sold at the
Anderson Galleries Saturday afternoon.
A walk through this room exhibits to
Z. the visitor a fairly complete set OF ex-
amples of the various styles OF the
development of ancient glass. Espe-
cially does the work become interest
ing in a fine Sidonian bottle OF what
was called porcelain glass delight
full specimen of pearl iridescence. Near
BY is another Sidonian piece, pitcher
in a sapphire blue, with quaint de-
sign representing The tree OF life, with
out beginning and without end. some
times an almost metallic glow catches
the eye, sometimes bit OF warm blue.
Sometimes, as is the case in an old Ro-
man glass mirror found near Nazareth,
the visitor meets with hues that shift
from brown TO green and back again
with bewildering fuency. Nor is II
color alone Here is Greek urn OF
graceful form. there lovely design
In a Phenician heavy glass ribbed
bowl.
Moreover. the room includes a num-
Der Of interesting objects besides glass.
A coin from Carthage with well exc
cuted head Of Ceres on one side and a
horse on the other, Roman gold coins OF
Nero's day. small Roman iron crosses,
an Egyptian bronze figure of the god
dess Isis nursing her son Horus. blue
glazed Rakka pottery inkwell-all and
many others like them have been care
fully chosen and tastefully set forth.
Cheerful, frank, sympathetic little
portraits Of children, done with hrm
line and clear fat color, are to be seen
at an exhibition OF pencil drawings OF
nicturesoue New York by Louis II.
Ruvl. and Of portraits of children in
water color, by Beatrice Baxter Ruyl,
az III Madison Avenue. Mrs. Ruyl has
been especially fortunate in catching
the engagingly frank expression Of
childhood and of translating it in o
manner that suggests the French
school which follows in the footsteps
Of Boutet de Monvel. Mr.. Ruyl, for his
mart. has noticed that New York is an
interesting place. and by his pencil
| sketches has said so-.6 an interesting
way. Especially does the monumental
s;de ~ our skyscrapers appeal to him,