New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-26
RoSsellino's Work Reaches
Top Price at the Davan-
Zati Sale
MUSEUMS COMPETE
FOR ARMOR SUITS
Million Dollar Receipts
Believed Sure Before
Auction Ends

Sculptures in stucco. wood and terra
Gotta brought the highest prices yes
terday at the fifth session Of the Dsvan-
zati Palace sale in the American Art
Galleries, which were again filed 10
their capacity by an enthusiastic throng
Of bidders and buyers The total for
the session was $4,000, making grand
total 10 date Of S696,6O5. With three
more sessions 20 close the sale at one
Of which the sixty-four paintings will
be dispersed 1T is regarded as certain
that the million-dollsr mark viii be
reached. II not passed.
A fifteenth century Florontino paint
ed wood bust OF an sristocratic maiden,
belonging 10 one OF the patrician fami
lies Of Florence, brought the TOP price
Of the afternoon. Sf7,900 Otto Bernet,
as agent: G. & r. Canessa and ?. W.
French & Co. had three-cornered
battle OF bids for possession Of this ex-
ample OF the work Of Rosseiino, Of the
Donatello school (1409-70J. II was
finally Knocked down 20 Benet at the
figure named.
The subject depicts a young girl with
her lips parted in n provocative smile.
while the whole young face, with us
soft brown eyes, seems to sparkle with
the joy Of living. Her fair hair is
plated and twisted tightly around her
head and shows traces of having been
gilded originally. She is dressed in a
tight-iitting tunic OF green, cut square
across the neck, with an embroidered
edging of gold. Across her shoulders
is draped a dark green mantle, lined
with red, and folded back in two lapels
so as to show the tunic beneath.
other Prices Reached
The next best price Of the day was
$500. paid by w. W. Seaman, as agent,
for q fifteenth century Florentine poly
chrome stucco bass-relief of "The Vir-
GIN" seen in half length and modelled
in low relief. For seated figure OF
"The Virgin" Florentine polychrome
terra Gotta statuette attributed TO Kos
sellino, O. Bernet, as agent, gave s4,lOO.
The same buyer obtained for s5'eOO
d polychrome stucco bass-relief by Don
atello of a half-length figure of The
Virgin" clothed in n mantle of gold
brocade. richly decorated with a scroll
leaf pattern and a head covering OF
gold cloth. This is a work well known
to Italian critics. who have united, It is
work Of the prolific Donatello.
Miss r. VI. Lorenz as agent gave 3d.
700 for a stucco portrait bust of Fran
cesco Petrarca. the poet. She also paid
$500 for white marble half-lenRth
figure of 1.-THE Virgin" IN tight-ht-
ting robe and flowing mantle. Arnold
sculptor of the figure, is chiefly known
for his elaborate altar, now at the Log
o,ia del Ripallo Florence.
w. NJ. Milliken gave $4,000 for what
is considered the most beautiful exist
ing work Of II Maestro della Cappella'
II is an Italian polychrome terra Gotta
tabernacle of the fourteenth century,
showing the Virgin in red robe and
blue mantle. On her left arm she holds
the infant Christ.
Museums in Competition
There was keen competition in the
bidding between representatives OF the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art and OF
tho Boston Museum of Art for some
Of the Italian armor of the sixteenth
century. c. Cranczay paid Sl,1OO Tor
an Italian hnlf-suit of armor with ~ y
helmet OF the pot" type, and S1,6OO
for a similar half-suit with the date
1871 engraved on Il. G.. Duponts pur-
chases included small bronze cannon
with moulded muzzle and bands. mount.
ed on a four-wheeled gun carriage OF
wood.
This sale was conducted by Thomas
T Kirby and Otto Bernet, his assistant.
The Davanzati Palace glass, bronze and
wrought iron objects will be sold TO-
morrow afternoon. the linens on Tues
dav afternoon and the paintings at the
Hotel Plaza tomorrow night.