Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — RARE WORKS OF ART SOLD [ARTICLE]

RARE WORKS OF ART SOLD

7wo Chinese vases realized $48,400 at Christies (London) recently. They came from different anonymous properties and were' both beakers of the Kang-He period, beautifully enameled. The largest stood 27 inches high, and fetched 125,200; the other J 8 inches high, and fetched $28,200. » The day was a day of high bidding, two Chinese famllle-rose cisterns of the KlenLuxig period reaching $7,610. AU sorts

of varied works of art appeared, among them a marble relief of the fourth century foundrln 1896 by Arab tribesmen in Tripoli, and recently on loan In the Ashmolean museum at Oxford. It represented three dancing nymphs and fell at $7,087. Tapestries concluded the sale brilliantly, a set of five Brussels work after Teniers? woven in the seventeenth century, bringing $18,900. They came from the

property of'Mr. A. M. Wilson of Stow* langtoft hall, Bury St Edmunds. Two Brussels panels of the same period, signed F; V., and belonging to Sir Luke Fields, B. A., fetched $£,776, and another earlier .panel from the same Dutch looms, representing a classical scene, fell to a bid of $6,300.