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Show Famous Art Collection. The unique collection of Chinee works of art made by the late I.I Hung Chang, one-time viceroy of Cliliiu. which for years collectors tried vainly to acquire, has llnally been bought by u Swedish syndicate. The purchase price Is understood to have been more than a million krone (nominally about .fL'SO.OOO), but the Intrinsic value of the collection Is Incalculable. I.I Hung Chang died In 1001. He had a collection of works of art larger larg-er than anything of Its kind In the empire. It Included numerous old paintings, bronze of great worth and ancient ceramics. The bronzes date from a time before Christ, and the paintings were done from the tenth to tho twelfth centuries. |