New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-17
Sum Will Provide Place
for Early Decorative
Art Collection.
METROPOLITAN GETS
5 DERING PORTRAITS
Notable Morgan Tapestries to
Remain on Exhibition Here
Through Summer.

Mrs. Russell Sage, whose gift Of the
Bolles collection of furniture in 1909
was one of the notable benefactions in
the history Of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art, has further evinced her
interest in the welfare of that institu-
ton by contributing $4,000 for pro-
viding permanent installation OF the
Museum collection of early American
decorative art, which includes the
Bolles group.
When this important collection was
presented to the Museum its bulletin
stated:
at would be difficult TO overestimste
the value Of this collection to the
Museum, not only because of the beauty
and importance of many Of the indi-
vidual pieces, but because the col
lection as a whole is a unit, the
dominant idea being to portray the his
tory Of the development of form and
ornament in furniture during a period
Of more than two centuries" The list
OF accessions and loans for May shows
that Mrs. Sage has made six other gifts,
including some ceramics, jades, jewelry,
coins, textiles and costumes.
Portraits from Mr.. Derlng.
Sylvester Dering, OF Utica, has given
the Museum five of his family portraits,
which are now shown in the Room OF
Recent Accessions. They include three
pictures by Blackburn-Margaret Syl-
vester, wife OF David Chesebrough and
daughter Of Brinley Sylvester, Of Shell
ter Island: Mary Sylvester, wife OF
Thomas Derlng. sister of Margaret
Sylvester Chesebrough, and Thomas
Dering, Of Boston, husband Of Mary
Sylvester Dering. All of these portraits
were painted In 1854. The pictures by
Daniel Huntington are the portraits OF
Ella Virginia Bristol and Nicoll Havens
Dering.
One Of the most acceptable gifts that
the Museum has ever acquired was the
recent contribution OF Emile Pares, an
ert dealer, of a small half-length figure
Of ST. Paul in alabaster, fragment
from the splendid Spanish altarpiece
In the wing of decorative arts given
by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1909. This
figure completes the scene represented
in the upper right hand panel OF the
altarpiece.
Visitors to the Museum who have
enjoyed the privilege of studying the
Ill n PfaFnnn
Morgan will be glad TO learn that the
recently announced sale of this por,
ton of the Morgan collection does not
mean the Immediate withdrawal of al
the tapestries from exhibition. A mum
Der Of the more important pieces have
passed into the hands of private col
lectors, who have allowed their pur-
chases TO remain at the Museum
through the summer and perhaps
longer.
Mazarin TO Remain.
These tapestries include the Mazarin
now the property of Joseph h. Wild
ener; the Crucifixion, also lent by Mr.
Widener; the five brilliant Gobelins
illustrating the history Of Don Quixote
formerly belonging to Louis XVI, later
20 the King of Spain, and now TO Mrs
Fitz Eugene Dixon, Of Philadelphia
and three English tapestries from
Knole Manor, woven at Mortlake, now
lent TO the Museum by Mrs. Amory
Carhart of this city.
Durr Friedley, acting curator OF
decorative arts, announces that the
Museum has obtained by purchase, for
permanent exhibition, the earliest tap
estry from the Morgan collection, which
y a ~ Y n
French tapestry weaving-the remark
able small Crucifxion dating from the
thirteenth century, lately exhibited IN
the room of Gothic enamels.
Edward Robinson, director OF the
Museum. announced yesterday that
since the closing of the exhibition OF
the Morgan collection on May ~, Mr.
Morgan had selected certain classes OF
material which he would place on SHOW
in the Morgan Memorial at Hartford
Conn. This exhibition will consist
largely. but not exclusively, of ceramics
and will include all the Meissen figures
and vases which were shown here, a.
well as the Sevres porcelains, with the
exception Of few pieces which Mr..
Morgan has reserved.
In addition TO these IL will include
q selection Of specimens Of Venetian
glass. Renaissance works in silver and
ivory. a number of individual objects
Of the same period in various ma
terials, and a collection Of ancient
Roman glass and pottery which was
not included in the Metropolitan's ex-
hibition. These will be forwarded TO
Hartford within a few weeks.