New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-16
Part of Famous
Pulpit Acquired
BY Art Museum
Marble Plaster Made by
Pisano for Duomo of Pisa
With Gothic and Jacobean
Furniture on Exhibition
Thayer Portrait Bought
Three Special Showings of
Japanese Sword Guards
and Pictures Announced

"A marble plaster originally part Of
the famous pulpit made by Giovanni
Plsano for the Duomo of Pisa. and a
series Of important pieces of Gothic
and Jacobean oak furniture are among
the latest objects of art acquired bv
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
placed on exhibition in the Room ~
Recent Accessions to-day for the first
TIME. Inc plaster dates from the
fourteenth century.
Inc Museum announces in the JuIv
bulletin also the purchase Of nor,
trait by the late Abbott II. Thayer and
three special exhibitions. These are a
collection of Japanese sword guards
and firearms lent by the Armor and
Arms Society. an exhibition of water
colors by Winslow Homer and John
Sargent, and Juvenile pictures by Flor
ence Wyman wins
The plaster is the third piece of a
group obtained from the collection for
merly owned by John Ruskin.
The Thayer portrait is his Head Of
Child" which was exhibited at Car
negie Institute, Pittsburgh, as port
raft of Raphael Pumpelly" 1t is the
head of golden-haired boy done in
Thayers characteristic beauty of color.
1t is the third painting by the artist
to come to the museum.
Chest of Fourteenth Century
The six pieces composing the fur
niture accession are Gothis chest Of
the late fourteenth century, two stools
and cupboard of the sixteenth cen
fury and box stool and child's high
chair in the finest Jacobean style Of
the middle seventeenth century. All
are lngeniously made and deliberately
carved. Each piece formed part of the
collection of the late Morgan Williams,
OF St. Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire.
The chest and cupboard, the most i'm
portant of the pieces, are the gift Of
Sir Joseph Duveen. The others are
Museum purchases.
The chest front is decorated in a
simple tracery pattern of perpendicu-
lar form in low relief and augmented
with winged lions. The box STOOL as
explained in the bulletin, is link
between the stool and the chest, and
is significant of the development of
furniture forms during the period.
The cupboard pattern is rigid and geo.
metrical, the design of it's panels be-
ing in the "parchemin" and earlier
types.
Japanese Sword Guards
There is an extraordinary range in
material, ornament and execution in
Japanese sword guards exhibited by
the arms society. There are hundred
examples in iron, steel, copper, brass
and gold, some Of them enameled and
all artistically ornamented. Others
are treated for color in a process
known as picking. The examples vary
in period from the fourteenth century
to a hundred years ago. The inscrip.
tions represent various legends and
sometimes the hobby of the artist o,
his patron.
In addition to the water colors OF
Homer and Sargent the present ex.
hibition contains similar examples and
pastels by La Fargo, Hassam, Steiner
Dougherty, Glackens, Marin, McComas
William Blake and other English art.
lists. The exhibition may be seer
throughout the summer in Gallery IS
Besides the show by Florence Wy.
man WINS, designated as the chill.
dren's world in drawings, woodcuts
and sketches, which holds forth ir
classroom B, there is a newly hung
group of Hiroshige landscapes with
figures in the Japanese print room
The Museum is placing on view ir
the armor gallery the flag carried al
the first inauguration Of George Wash
lngton. 1t is lent by the City of New
York