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FINE OLD FURNITURE SHOWN IN MUSEUM

American-Made Pieces of Mid 18th Century Gathered by George S. Palmer.

Collection also contains Rare English-Made Articles, Including Two Royal Armchairs.

There will be opened for exhibition today in Galleries J9 and 10 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art a recently acquired accession of mid-eighteenth century American Furniture, which, with collections already in possession of the museum will make the most complete assemblage of household furnishings of our country that can possibly be brought together. The collection is a part of that assembled after thirty years of strenuous effort by George S. Palmer of New London in acquiring the treasures which now, through the museum, become the property of the public. R.T.H. Halsey, expert on these lines and a fellow-collector of Mr. Palmer, is the authority for the statement that he and other experts in fine old furniture had no idea that such beautiful pieces as Mr. Palmer discovered had ever been made in America. Mr. Halsey says that the museum has now an unrivaled collection of American furniture. There are forty-one American-made pieces in the collection which the museum has acquired, and twenty-five English. They are now arranged in the two galleries in which they are shown as nearly as possible as they would be in a private home, the American-made in one room and the English in another. Only one American piece has strayed into the English room, a piece of much interest, a mixing table which came from Baltimore, on which were prepared the various kinds of beverage which in the earlier days took the place of the cocktail. It is a charming piece of furniture, of much delicate grace, small closets or cellarets at the sides holding the bottles. There are old desks, highboys and lowboys, pie crust tables; a high post bedstead, and an unusual piece is a knife and fork holder on casters. The lower part of this is shaped like an oblong ottoman upon which is the box divided in two sections, like the familiar knife box, but of much larger size. Two royal armchairs of walnut, English of the latter part of the seventeenth century, are gems of the collection; there are side tables of great distinction, tall clocks of full size and the others in miniature. A desk made in Connecticut has twenty-seven drawers, and a tiny ladies` desk with ball and claw feet is an exquisite little piece of furniture. Queen Anne, Chippendale, Sheraton, and Heppelwhite periods are represented. The American-made furniture the experts find has a charm of its won, being less elaborate than that made on the other side of the water. Of the American makers the identity of one has been discovered, William Savery, who had his shop At the Sign of the Chair, a little below the Market in Second Street, Philadelphia. The Palmer collection is rich in the work of this man. An interesting feature of the exhibition is the showing with it on the walls of the galleries in which it is exhibited designs from the pattern books of the old English furniture designers, Chippendale and the others, from which the cabinet makers of their day and later drew liberally. The collection will remain on exhibition as a collection only until Jan. 5. Eventually this and the other collections will be brought together, filling an entire wing of the museum. A portion of the Belleg collection of furniture, acquired by the museum through the generosity of Mrs. Russell Saga which has not yet been seen by the public, is now also being shown in the basement of the museum. In the Egyptian department of the museum there is opened today a special exhibit of unusual interest showing the daily life of the people.

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