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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1916)
6 TITE SUNDAY OHEGOXTAX, PORTLAND, JT7XE IS, 1910. " Milli on ion to ,, ,, , 'Ta-Innnwi" rn wirTir n i m nw mm -ii jimmim. ' i mini' - 1 f' ' . .yu... fm-ir-j ;:. .J .. - ' " Dollar Collect 1 ' l,r I II WiX-7" -a i fecyS ' . Z7 fSpa T(H y -rr -,,a ,' , 2ii V:. FROHtTHE CHABRIERE ARLES' COLLECTION, ACQUIRED Sy MES5RS DUVEEN BROTHERS. r wi-.- nfr vn tr f$ a i a 8 01" 4 . T S 1 1 1 m i .....-.. w.- vy- . ti .. . sj . ,n . .... ttMinmTV'l i r' J 1 Af -r- air ' t . 3?s5faw ft : j ISiMferv 111 C&r-v&ci W3nuiZrese-,kZaZc?Xy Venture Sfgri &3?t C?fir-y ....- ... . . ,, .,....r.. :,, , , J. , 1 MWr - : ' ..' . i 5Kt, o rP" x: v : V -r ; V 05 k f l v I if . - ... - 1 . - - I'M4! rfe-C- e r 1-Mfs rAf V'i 111- Ml! .1 i is, 1 ' lizr j ' iafrffin.Vft . A ' 1 i " BY GUSTAV KOBBE. FXTRNITURE worth a million! Wlo is going: to spend that amount for it? Messrs. Duveen Brothers, the well-known American art dealers, al ready have But, then, such turnlture! It is th famous Chabriere-Aries collection, dis played in the retrospective exposition at Lyons in 1877 and again in tha Petit Palais. Paris, in 1900. Mr. Chabriere-Aries, who formed th collection, is dead. His name, how ever, survives with the art objects he gathered and no doubt often will bo quoted in the provenance of every piece in the collection-even after it hffs been sold to the fortunate Americans who will acquire these objets d'art for such th&se articles of Renaissance furniture are- They are of the fifteenth and six teenth centuries. In keeping with the taste of the time, they are embellished with bas-reliefs, often even with fig ures in hieh relief. These display all the purity of design of the fine period of the Renaissmce. They also reveal a departure from contemporary archi tecture for the traditions of classical .antiquity. It is In sjch furniture that the collection is especially rich. It contains some of the finest productions of the school of Lyons, Bourgogne and Fontainebleau. They are after designs by grreat craftsmen like Goujon and Iucerceau. Several important" dressers, side boards or cabinets in tiers are in the collection. A superb sideboard recalls the antique method of architecturally ornamenting the lower tier and con tinuing the decoration above. Borne by fluted pilastres, which repeat them selves on the upper tier, where they separate two doors decorated in their ceiter3 by a lion's mask with ara besques, this piece of furniture, so elmple and so pure in style, is inter esting in that it seems to have been designed by an architect who has striven above all to preserve the value and the purity of his lines. Also he has refrained from marring the balance of the design by introducing too much sculpture. A second dres3i;r is characteristic of & style found in much furniture of the second half of the sixteenth century. It shows grotesque figures supporting the angles. This sculriture gives them an importance they could not obtain in any other way. The idea repeats Itself in a slighter degree upon sculp m itcV imi kdh WAS-- o cf Scrcsjo Ziz. r s. ures of "Earth." "Fire" and "Water." dallions on trophies, all in accentuated tablature. The architectural lines are produced on the borders of the Rhone. This article was discovered at Vouries. hanging foliage, grotesque candelabra ture on the doors. One cannot help jjow capitally it shows the difference relief. Lion masks decorate the draw- here of a larger and more impressive where the furniture makers seem to near Lyons. surmounted by a putto bearing on its pausing to consider the immense . ., .. , , th- ers in the frieze supporting the en- character than what was habitually have sought, above all. a perfect finish. A fine cupboard of smaller dimen- head a basket of fruit between puttl. portions as well as their small heads furniture produced in the Bourgogne as compared with their enormous bodies and the Auvergne! There the sculp- and their bearing on the general lines ture is carried out with firmness and of -the piece. It s manifest that the decision Here the figures, however care devoted to the sculpture has been happy in their symbolism, are short AUTOMOBILING IN WILDS OF THE YUKON (Continued From Page 4.) sions. but also in an upper and lower back to back, holding branches of foli- tler, has its four doors decorated with age. heads of rams, with volutes of foliage Two statuettes Jn wood are figures terminating in grapes and finished up of saints. These women, evidently with masks or heads of angels. The from a large altar screen, make part few years It has been made more and headlight on' the front of the car. and rlch beautiful execution is an excellent of a setting to the "Entombment" or of bestowed upon all the rest. And while and none too skillful in execution. This enough to carry three or four tons. It more fit for automobiles. The nrst Dy the side lamps. example of what was produced in the a "Descent frord the Cross." One ot excess of carving is the most frequent sideboard has been attributed to Nor- was so arranged that carbon heaters time an automobile road was proposed They made the trip to White Horse ateliers of the center of France. the statuettes, which was in the Petit error in furniture designed in the mandy. those used for carriage warmers the opponents or the measure sconeo. ana return wunm bis Hours, or-wnicn Very superior, to my taste, and of Palais In 1900. was the object of unl- Bourgogne unde Sambir nlze Von ,ri Ka mni-A .;1.. , . . , . , . drftwn hv tni.i- n bit linr.oo a rpnp4 in o- tion Of S50.00Q disDlaved than in thosa studios. Kor tii rin- with mk ,ir.Hn, to the state of the roads. In The the purpose. ' The objections were eter leu 10 ob aegrees Deiow zero, oui , furniture planned according to the also of a beauty of expression whicb. finish combined with strength this splendidly 'fashioned This chimney Spring six-horse wagons are used. made that automobiles could not be run. tne air was Ieaa still, and. wrapped up Uws of architecture and which would radiates from It. It probably was piece can be offered as a magn.ficent piece Indicates with' what taste Mr. n- ' v ...... ln the low temperatures of the Tukon. as they were In furs, they did not re- not have been dl,owne1 by th( ereat. part of a great ensemble of one of the example of the school which, aotwlth- Chabriere-Aries knew how to utilize tJb" J f fr freiht ver and that the road was so rough that allze the cold until they came to a egt architecta. And wltn whatKdeli. m0st beautiful Flemish altar screen, standing its sometime excesses, often the iTrt oblect. wWcfc This tTste led him h!rad U "P." P"FUnd: the machines could never make their rotdhoiiH and found they had been cacy and charm have th- hower sub, of tQe rifteenth century. which may combH.es great simplicity of composi- to acquire in the decoration of the "1, "ou. 'a su a way over it. This discussion occurred riu.ns urouga a "mper.r, OI jecta been carved BO f,ne, ou have been carved In tha we8lern part tion with largeness of-execution' It apartment's in wMchWd to use !"0tJ llTrlll JfJ?? Jl J? J!?SL Z , v.. m.,Mn. beautiful oaken wood of close and hard of Flanders, Upright, the hands , r grain, ilow rare tne agreement be- crossea ana jowerea. mo woman is a tween the wood and the incrustation prey to concentrated grief, which. and Lyonnaise regions There is a chimnev niece of which can be Placed in troughs around the " me laea ana saia max coum "- o noure. was conunuai roamns. xni arf absolute purity Is a little cupboard versal admiration, and was popular- r the direct Influence of Hugues the upper part is formed of a superb Ded of tho 'ed- These heaters keep oe.aone. ine matter came up oeioro coverea a distance oi i.i muea, ana in two tiers and with four doors, dec- lzed by reproductions ln many review in. It is also necessary to recog- headboard decorated with figures in the tightly covered load from ' being e parliament at Ottawa ana it a -v orated with Incrustations of marble, of art. It is tfuly a beautiful work. that skill ln sculpture has. per- vih n, ; ..r,.r. t , affected by frosts. These sleds are discussed pro and con. An appropria- hour for the running time of the round wltn the flures of -summer" and not only because of great charm of had been proposed for trip, uuring the journey the thermom ..w,..,,- , . . inr. .na .i,rr.r nf finish hut " " . . - auv. . cuua. i c 1 a - o may be noted as a special characteristic them. It is understood to have been ', . t, . ' T, h -w i,r v.jj . si.oo a meal and 2 a room. If noth- who was then commissioner, or Gov- f ,hri-,. .V'"r . "":". J v. " -.1 . ' inS happens, the trip is made in live ernor, of Tukon Territory, decided to ;;,7.V-: 'rrx .Vr. rC. : Z. "Z y. and the roadhouss expense is ehov. Parliament that the undertaking t a few minutes' rest would freeze the siren are very simply modeled besides some beautiful pictures. Italian and thi.t the noses are flattened, with- bronzes of the sixteenth century of the cut rounding, as if executed by a few finest type, Italian and Spanish cera blows or a hammer upon the carving mics, Limoges enamels and various tool. bijoux. Passing from the Sennegon Into the From the Region Lyonnalse comes Chabriere collection, this great side- without doubt because of the charae board has always and with sufficient ter of the caryatides between the reason been considered as "having theV doors and at the angles a great cup- provenance of the region Lyonnaise. A board which is an admirable example e engine and congeal the OIL At one of n..,. i,.u lt ,, ,,. .hows in the stiffening of the body ime they had to stop because their ,h. .. k. .io., r h.rH and the contraction of the feature. about $30. In times past the stages was possible. He thereupon made an gasoline had given out, within-20 miles ag ,n thls cupboari and that the mar. Long. slight and elegant. she la carried from 500 to 1000 people a arrangement with C A. Thomas, the of a roadhouse which they had expected b,e be of a hard tone ,n gray or black clothed ln the fashion oX the end of month, and in March, when the people residearfmanager of the Tukon Gold to reach. They had to get a dog team Bpots fQr example. Then the two ma- the fifteenth century; and all the de were going back to the gold mines, two Company at Dawson, to take his 40- and send on to the roadhouse. While terlal. mlx agreeably. This piece of tails of her costume, the long sandals or three stages left White .Horse every horsepower automobile over the tralU they waited the Wlje froze furniture evidently I, of workmanship on her feet, the loose belt whicb en day. Just now the traffic Is light. On Tne two ,8tarted out, with George nre und" the car with wood from the native to the center of-France, even circles the loins and does not brealc the trip lo teams are used and three Porter aa chauSeur. They left Daw- forest before they could start off again. If it is not from the vicinity of Paris, the beautiful line of the vertical folds changes of horses are made every day. son vben the r0ad was covered with When they had completed the trip Another dresser, with seat, the piece of hr robe, her high headdress, stiff eacn team traveling on tne average now and the thermometer was far be- got back to Dawson the bill for more than eight feet high, is In walnut ana pieatea. mane ner captivating, r ur- about 22 miles. This has been ther. the wood has preserved com- , -i i tt i . tne roaa tuurourmiiiin ws just moout , ... . . ; third siSeboard, in which the upper of bois sculpte. One finds a happy ready spent a great deal on the road at hand and the sun shone only for an tr(p was telegraphed to Ottawa and the pronounced by Les Arts and by con- Koldefl browns of the robe and the part Is divided into three panels with mingling of decorations. The doors and its upkeep costs some thousands hour or so every day. The darkness bill giving 150.000 for Improving the nolsseurs to be a veritable monu- fine and tinted rose color of the tacej cupboards, la decorated with, the fig- have a Pegasus In the center of me-, of dollaia per annum. Within the put was conquered ln part by a locomotive road was passed. - ment of atuait aarving. depicting and bands.
