The New York herald., 1920-01-27
FOUR EXHIBITIONS
IN ONE ART HOUSE
Properties of Late TIM. Adams
and j. r. De Lamar and
"Two Amateurs" Shown.
Y AMERICAN GALLERIES
Rosenstamm Collection of Paintings
and Porcelains Also on View
There-Dates for the Sales.

There IS every indication already that
the season of 1920 will be remembered
in art circles of New York as one Of the
most notable for striking sales in the his
tory of the city. The average is high. thus
olfsetting the fact that in other years one
or Two auctions, on account of the size
or quality of certain collections. tended
TO give an air of distinction to writer:
rms time, owing to the dispersal of one
important set of antiques after another.
IL is almost impossible to keep pace with
what is going on. In the American Art
Galleries yesterday while eager con-
noisseurs had their noses up against the
prints by Rembrandt Durer and Anders
zorn and the porcelains. &C. of the
Rosenstamm collection--already described
which are to be sold this afternoon and
tonight. visitors were flocking about the
other rooms in which three exhibitions had
been opened
In the toumost gallery are textiles. rugs
and tapestries, tall clocks, bronzes, table
china, old English and modern silver
Chinese porcelains and cabinet specimens
belonging to the estate of the late
Thatcher NJ. Adams. Among the tapestries
IS one OF the Sixteenth century, the SUBJ
Ject OF which is Paris and the wife of
Menelans, conventional in treatment. A
Gobaiius Of the Seventeenth century is an
interesting portrait of Saint Philip Mari
founder OF the Oratory. while there is a
ViVid flemish hunting scene of the same
period.
On the lower floor and in the main
rooms on the next floor is a varied collec-
ton or Italian RENAISSANCE furniture, with
early Frencn furnishings and ernbellsh-
ments.' which is described in the cata-
!ogue as the property Of two amateurs. F"
silver and white metal pieces, Chi
nese porcelains, Italian majolica ware.
French stained and painted glass, Per-
sian daggers. Italian wrought iron.
French clocks, objects in brass
and copper, Italian marble lions.
limestone plaster capitols Of the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries; wood
carvings, golden and silvered wood wall
mirrors. gilt wood condlesticks, tables of
all sorts. including those of the Empire
period; and early American furniture make
up very bewildering ensemble. The en-
broideries which are chiefly Of the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries are very
rich and decorative. Z
A striking piece is silver standing cup
and cover in the Augsburg style of the
sixteenth century. This is 413s inches high
and 11a diameter OF the bowl is 1O1s inches.
The original is in the Landhaus of Strait
styric. There is fine Venetian carved
and gilt wood lantern of the seventeenth
century, together with some graceful sill
vered copper candelabre of the seven-
teenth century.
The antique furniture includes sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteen century chairs
chests of drawers. commodes, choir stalls,
with sideboards and beds of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries.
There are three galleries full OF paint
the taste of the late
notwithstanding to Miss Alice A. De
Lamar from the country house of the late
Captain De Lamar, Pembroke near Clan
Cove. or these the more important are
Alma Tadema's Loves Missile" Jean
Bereud's Casino ct Monte Carlo" Rosa
Bonheur's Monarch of the Forest" Bou-
guerean's large "LAurora," Jules Bre-
toms Cleaners" Sir Edward Burne-Jones'
Legend of st. George and the Dragon, The
Princess Led to the Dragon;" j. l..
the Rivera very chara acteristic example
Of the Hudson River school-by James NJ
Hart; Daniel Ridgway Knights Water
Laloir's Temptation OF st. An
thony: Thomas Moran's "A Dream of the
Turneresque in manner;
Moorish Sheik and Escort
r. W. Van Boskerck's Summer Land
scape," Van Marcke's "A Spring Day"
Viberts Incoming Tide" and Departure
OF His Eminence;" huge State Process
sion OF Shar Jehan" by the late Edwin
Lord Weeks and Felin Ziem's Venice"
The paintings will be sold in the ball
room Of the Plaza Hotel on Thursday
evening. the Thatcher Adams collection
in the American Art Galleries on Satur-
day afternoon. January 81. and the other
collection in the galleries on the afternoons
of Thursday and Friday January %
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