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Show TO SELL WHITE'S ART TREASURES Late Architect's Superb Collection Col-lection of Pictures, Vases and Tapestry to Go at Public Sale. NEW YORK, March 28. From the American Art Galleries there was yesterday yes-terday issued a handsomely illustrated catalogue of the Stanford White art treasures. These constitute a superb collection which Mr. Thomas E. Kirby will dispose of in the residence, 121 East Twenty-first street, on the afternoons after-noons of Thursday, Friday and Saturday Satur-day of next week. The paintings, as distinguished from the furnishings and household ornaments, orna-ments, will be sold in Mendelssohn hall on Thursday and Friday evenings, April 11 and 12. The frontispiece in the catalogue is given over to the first century Greek vase, a most notable piece of its kind. The pieces of tapestry, tap-estry, the series of four dating from Italian renaissance and hanging in the dining-room, and the large Gobelin tapestry which is at the end of the music-room, also are subjects of illustration. illus-tration. The antique musical instruments are aptly employed in the decoration of this music-room. White's residence was a veritable treasure-house of art. There are 409 numbers in the catalogue of art subjects. The pictures are 112 in number, among the latter several Americans. |