Word: majolica
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...taste, rapidly expanded the collection to include other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
...born in 1859 in Washington, D. C. Migrating to England as a youth, Henry Oppenheimer went into "the City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking firm. A generous and kindly Jew whose friends called him "Hen Opp," prosperous Mr. Oppenheimer soon began to acquire majolica, medals, coins, intaglios, objects of antique Greek and Roman art. In 1912 "Hen Opp" laid the keel of his collection of Old Masters' sketches when he made an extensive purchase from the Heseltine collection. Cultivating the friendship of art experts like the National Gallery's Director Sir Charles...
...collection of Achillito Chiesa of Milan. Chiesa before the War acquired a great gallery of pre-Renaissance painting, including a triptych by Orcagna, a picture each of Simone, Martini and Bellini, 1,200 other paintings of the 11th to 16th Centuries, early enamels, ivories, textiles, furniture, porcelain, faience, majolica. He bought Correggio's Holy Family, Filippino Lippi's most celebrated Madonna and Child, works by Duerer, Van Cleff, Mabuse, Van Dyck. Unfortunately, Collector Chiesa's funds were not inexhaustible. He ordered more than he could pay for. His collection, like that of the late Lord Leverhulme, will...
Under the auspices of the Department of Western Art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Mr. William Hagerman Graves, formerly president of the Grueby Pottery Company, will speak on "Majolica and Porcelain," in the Western Art Study Room tomorrow at 2.45 o'clock...