Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1919 — PAYS COOL $11,500 FOR VASE [ARTICLE]

PAYS COOL $11,500 FOR VASE

Parrish Watson Takes Fancy for Chinese Art of Seventeenth Century. - > New York. —Oriental art treasures from the collection of ’the late Charles Stewart Smith came' to the final session of their sale in the American Art galleries one day recently, and the leading price of $11,500 was paid by Parrish Watson for a tall, brilliant sang-de-boeuf vq.se of the J>ang Yao genre and bearing a seventeenth century date of the K’ank-hsi era. It is said to have been the property of the late Captain Brinkley, U. S. A., a noted connoisseur In Japan, before being bought by Mr. Smith. A tall powderblue vase of the same era went to J. Voiran for $990. J. Goetz paid $750 for a small sang-de-boeuf vase, of the Lang-Yao genre and K'ang-hsl era. The session yielded $22,167 and the whole sale $27,016.