The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-20
MANY ANTIQUES ARE
PUT ON EXHIBITION
American Art Associations
Galleries Give Illusion Of
Luxurious Home.
COLLECTION TO BE SOLD
SatinwOod Cabinets in Adam
Style and BrOnzes Are
Among Objects.

collection OF antiques and objects OF
art. coming from a Washington resi-
dence, was placed on public view Mt the
American Art Association yesterday. and
this with some additional pieces from
other owners make UP an especially
varied and attractive collection, which
will be sold at auction beginning Febru-
airy 26. The additions nj In admirably
with the main collection as the several
galleries opening into one another now
make an excellent ensemble ard give tho
Illusion OF a luxurious home There are
drawing rooms. reading rooms, dining
rooms and even bedrooms, that appear
TO be reasonably complete and certainly
are in excellent taste.
There are satinwood cabinets in the
Adam style; an early English grand
fathers clock a carved and gilded Au-
busson salon suite a large mahogany
bookcase. and a Kingwood vitrine. both
In the Louis XVI. style; a mahogany
colonial sideboard; an extension break
fast table OF Sheraton period tapestry
chairs; Chippendale, Regence and other
gilded mirrora, and an oval centre table
with the top decorated with a Land
scape with Ruins'' in marquetry.
FILLED with Trinkets.
are filled with a most varied assortment
of trinkets and objects Of art which APP
peal sometimes through quaintness and
sometimes through genuine artistic merit.
fine PalIssy ware dish Is after tho
famous design by Briot. illustrating n
subject that engages a great deal Of the
modern attention.
A nude figure In the centre, holding
cup. typifes II you please. Tenn
perance," and other figures represent
tho elements and sciences There is an
Urbino dish with design after Ra-
phael Chinese Lowestoft porcelain
garniture. two figures In the Capo di
Monte manner. and a series OF Dresden
and other porcelain statuettes
Among the carvings are some box
wood fgurines that were once in the
Robert Hoe collection, a Virgin and
Child" with her hair curiously looped
at the back and close fitting robes with
long draperies. and two other carvings
OF the same subject and dating from
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
There is a silver mounted ivory tankard
OF the George III. period an early
eighteenth century lockwood cross carved
with scenes from the life OF Christ.
Chinese Huah wood figures OF goddesses
and n Flemish plaque of ivory with
After March"
Some of the Bronses.
The bronzes include animal figures
by +. J. Meme and Barge. and various
groups with classic subjects There are
groups after Cloiin in both tcrrs-cuite
and gilt bronze and a Venus from the
Falconnet model. There IL much old
silver OF Dutch. English and French
origin. These include all sorts Of YES
sells such as trays. entire dishes. Shelf
field cake baskets, tureens. meat trays,
tea urns, together with candelabra and
knives. forks and spoons.
\ needlework picture of distinction
shows the sacrifice OF Isaac with touch
Ing realism, and a figure tapestry panel
is OF Flemish weave, The French colored
prints are after the most celebrated
eighteenth century engravings, and the
rugs. laces and table linens round out a
collection which. as has been said. seems
to exploit In n most special way all the
departments of the modern home.